The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division [Hardcover]

Joseph Palmer Blessington (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1994

Originally published in 1875. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: State House Pr (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880510049
• ISBN-13: 978-1880510049
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #796,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Quite Revealing, October 24, 2011

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Michael E. Fitzgerald (Kingwood, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The campaigns of Walker's Texas division: containing a complete record of the campaigns in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas ... (Paperback)

The Campaign's of Walker's Texas Division is a combination of Union and Confederate after action reports and the personal journal of Private Joseph P. Blessington, CSA. Initially organized in early 1862 at Hempstead, Texas, Walker's Division would spend the next 3 plus years actively engaged as part of the Confederacy's Trans Mississippi forces, defending central and north Louisiana, pushing back Union incursions from Arkansas to the north and New Orleans from the south and east. Known as Walker's Greyhounds these men marched prodigious distances, seemingly continuously, throughout each campaign season. At one point they marched 300 miles, fighting 3 battles in just 3 weeks.

They fought at Camden, Arkansas (Jenkins Ferry) turning Union Commander Fredrick Steele back to Little Rock, Milliken's Bend, just across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg, Mississippi when it surrendered to Union forces, July 4, 1863 and twice turned back Nathanial P. Banks, first in his Bayou Teche campaign and then in his ill advised Red River Campaign. Defeating Banks first at Mansfield (Sabine Crossroads to Union troops) and then Pleasant Grove, Richard Taylor stopped Banks drive to capture the Confederate military industrial complex composed of Marshall and Jefferson, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana. So severe was this defeat that in their retreat, Union forces came close to losing their entire navel squadron at Alexandria, Louisiana.

Written in 1875 to highlight the heroics of the Confederacy's all but ignored Trans Mississippi forces, be prepared for a very different literary style that takes a little getting used to. But be assured this work is quite worthwhile, one of the few firsthand accounts of the American Civil War in Arkansas and Louisiana.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, December 13, 2009

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This review is from: The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division: Containing a Complete Record of the Campaigns in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas ... (1875) (Paperback)

A must read book for anyone interested in the Red River Campaign of the Civil War.