Galveston and the Civil War: An Island City in the Maelstrom
A Civil War, Anthologies, Military History book. As many times as I've been to Galveston in the 45 years I've lived in the Houston area I'm...
On the eve of the Civil War, Galveston was a jewel of the Gulf Coast--a booming city with a fine natural harbor and all the commerce, culture and improvements that attended it. Galveston was also home to the largest slave market west of New Orleans and a hotbed of secessionist sentiment. Once the war started, Galveston became the focus of Union efforts to take Texas and Confederate efforts to defend it. Through the voice of its people, this lively 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.
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- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9781609492830 / 0
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Galveston and the Civil War by James M. Schmidt I certainly learned a lot about the history of the city where I was born and grew up. It is rather embarrassing that I had given virtually no thought to the fact that Galveston was a prominent slave market. What little I thought about slavery, I thought that it was of little importance... I received a signed copy of this book as part of a Goodreads giveaway. To the author.....thank you.Although I'm not a history buff, the book brought this time period to life for me. The author did an amazing amount of research and wrote the book in a way that was interesting with details usually absent in a lot of history books. I enjoyed... As many times as I've been to Galveston in the 45 years I've lived in the Houston area I'm amazed at what I didn't know about the city's history and especially how the Civil War came to the Island.This was an eyeopening lesson in history for me, and an enjoyable one as well. I'm going to have to add Jim Schmidt's other books to me 'to-read'...
