Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams: Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry

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The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence of antebellum Kansas Territory, Civil War commands in the Trans-Mississippi, and as a cavalry officer in the Indian Wars, Williams was involved in key moments of American history. Like many who make a difference, Williams was a leader of strong convictions, sometimes impatient with heavy-handed and sluggish authority. Building upon his political opinions and experience as a Jayhawker, Williams raised and commanded the ground-breaking 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment in 1862. His new regiment of black soldiers was the first such organization to engage Confederate troops, and the first to win. He enjoyed victories in Missouri, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), and Arkansas, but also fought in the abortive Red River Campaign and endured defeat and the massacre of his captured black troops at Poison Spring. In 1865, as a brigadier general, Williams led his troops in consolidating control of northern Arkansas. Williams played a key role in taking Indian …
Date: May 15, 2013
Creator: Lull, Robert W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report considers the debate on the efficacy of U.S. efforts to stabilize Afghanistan. Moreover, the report discusses how the Bush Administration's review of the progress resulted as inadequate, and thus ways of changing progress are being considered. The report also discusses the NATO led troops in the region.
Date: May 15, 2008
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scouting, Volume 6, Number 10, May 15, 1918 (open access)

Scouting, Volume 6, Number 10, May 15, 1918

Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: May 15, 1918
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 2014 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 2014

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 2014
Creator: Wallace, Daniel
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ground Pounder: a Marine's Journey Through South Vietnam, 1968-1969

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In early February of 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, Private First Class Gregory V. Short arrived in Vietnam as an eighteen-year-old U.S. Marine. Amid all of the confusion and destruction, he began his tour of duty as an 81mm mortarman with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, which was stationed at Con Thien near the DMZ. While living in horrendous conditions reminiscent of the trenches in World War I, his unit was cut off and constantly being bombarded by the North Vietnamese heavy artillery, rockets, and mortars. Soon thereafter Short left his mortar crew and became an 81mm’s Forward Observer for Hotel Company. Working with the U.S. Army’s 1st Air Cavalry Division and other units, he helped relieve the siege at Khe Sanh by reopening Route 9. Short participated in several different operations close to the Laotian border, where contact with the enemy was often heavy and always chaotic. On May 19, Ho Chi Minh’s birthday, the NVA attempted to overrun the combat base in the early morning hours. Tragically, during a two-month period, one of the companies (Foxtrot Company) within his battalion would sustain more than 70 percent casualties. By September Short was transferred to the …
Date: May 15, 2012
Creator: Short, Gregory V.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Bridges of Vietnam: From the Journals of U. S. Marine Intelligence Officer

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As an intelligence officer during the Vietnam War, Fred L. Edwards, Jr., was instructed to visit every major ground unit in the country to search for intelligence sources—long range patrols, boats, electronic surveillance, and agent operations. “Edwards found time to keep a journal, an extremely well-written, sharply observed report of his adventures. Along with contemporary postscripts and a helpful historical chronology, that journal is a significant improvement on most Vietnam memoirs. It is the record of a Marine’s on-the-job education.”—Proceedings
Date: May 15, 2001
Creator: Edwards, Fred L., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Queen of the Confederacy: the Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens

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From book jacket: "Submissiveness is not my role, but certain platitudes on certain occasions are among the innocent deceits of the sex." A strong character with a fervent belief in woman's changing place, Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was not content to live the life of a typical nineteenth-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the secessionist governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War, Lucy was determined to make her mark in the world. She married "the right man," feeling that "a woman with wealth or prestige garnered from her husband's position could attain great power." She urged Pickens to accept a diplomatic mission to the court of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and in St. Petersburg Lucy captivated the Tsar and his retinue with her beauty and charm. Upon returning to the states, she became First Lady of South Carolina just in time to encourage a Confederate unit named in her honor (The Holcombe Legion) off to war. She was the only woman to have her image engraved on Confederacy paper currency, the uncrowned "Queen of the Confederacy."
Date: May 15, 2002
Creator: Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 4, July 3, 1880-May 22, 1881

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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs. Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourke’s diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of eight books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 4 chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook’s Department of the Platte. A large portion centers on the continuing controversy concerning the forced relocation of the Ponca Indians from their ancient homeland along the Dakota-Nebraska line to a new reservation in the …
Date: May 15, 2009
Creator: Bourke, John Gregory
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 22, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1865 (open access)

The Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 22, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1865

Tri-weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: May 15, 1865
Creator: Cushing, E. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Age. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 274, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1876 (open access)

The Age. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 274, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1876

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 15, 1876
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1869 (open access)

Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1869

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1869
Creator: Swindells, John W. & Hutchen, Virginius
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Republican. (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1868 (open access)

The Texas Republican. (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1868

Weekly newspaper from the Marshall, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with and advertising.
Date: May 15, 1868
Creator: Loughery, Robert W. & McCutchan, A. D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Die Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 86, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 1866 (open access)

Die Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 86, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 1866

Tri-weekly German newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1866
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1869 (open access)

Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1869

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1869
Creator: Swindells, John W. & Hutchen, Virginius
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1863 (open access)

The Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1863

Tri-weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Date: May 15, 1863
Creator: Cushing, E. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily State Journal. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 92, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 15, 1870 (open access)

Daily State Journal. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 92, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 15, 1870

Daily newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1870
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Weekly Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1875 (open access)

The Dallas Weekly Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1875

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1875
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 219, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 15, 1867 (open access)

Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 219, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 15, 1867

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1867
Creator: Maltby, H. A. & Kinney, Somers
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anadarko Daily Democrat. (Anadarko, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 210, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 15, 1902 (open access)

Anadarko Daily Democrat. (Anadarko, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 210, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 15, 1902

Daily newspaper from Anadarko, Oklahoma. Coverage includes local, territory, and United States national news, along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1902
Creator: Shaw, Preston P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Daily Enterprise-Times. (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1896 (open access)

Daily Enterprise-Times. (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1896

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1896
Creator: Perry & Welch
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Comanche Chief. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1879 (open access)

The Comanche Chief. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1879

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1879
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 15, 1910 (open access)

The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 15, 1910

Daily newspaper from Guthrie, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1910
Creator: Greer, Frank H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 222, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1953 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 222, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1953

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1953
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1908 (open access)

The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1908

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 15, 1908
Creator: Adams, Jesse M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History