Galveston and the Civil War : an island city in the maelstrom / James M. Schmidt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2012Description: 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781609492830
  • 1609492838
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 976.4/13905 23
LOC classification:
  • F394.G2 S24 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Bondage -- War! -- Stranglehold -- Occupied -- Battle -- Mercy -- Dissent -- Entrenched -- Cat-and-Mouse -- Fever -- Liberation.
Summary: "Through the voice of its people, this ... book relates the interesting and important role the Island City played during the war, including the story of the Union naval blockade, the dramatic Battle of Galveston, Unionists, dreadful epidemics of yellow fever, the surrender of Galveston as the last major port still in Confederate hands, and the bondage and liberation of the island's enslaved African Americans"--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index.

Bondage -- War! -- Stranglehold -- Occupied -- Battle -- Mercy -- Dissent -- Entrenched -- Cat-and-Mouse -- Fever -- Liberation.

"Through the voice of its people, this ... book relates the interesting and important role the Island City played during the war, including the story of the Union naval blockade, the dramatic Battle of Galveston, Unionists, dreadful epidemics of yellow fever, the surrender of Galveston as the last major port still in Confederate hands, and the bondage and liberation of the island's enslaved African Americans"--Page 4 of cover.

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