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William Livingston: Revolutionary War Governor of New Jersey
This investigation is concerned with the importance of the role that William Livingston played in the struggle for American independence. Two methods were used to present this role. First, a narrative account describes his work as governor of the state of New Jersey. Second, subjective opinions of his contemporaries and others evaluate the effectiveness of his work.
Date:
December 1970
Creator:
Lusher, Jerry Ronald
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Forty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment: the Washburne Lead Mine Regiment in the Civil War
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Of the roughly 3,500 volunteer regiments and batteries organized by the Union army during the American Civil War, only a small fraction has been studied in any scholarly depth. Among those not yet examined by historians was one that typified the western armies commanded by the two greatest Federal generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. The Forty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry was at Fort Donelson and Shiloh with Grant in 1862, with Grant and Sherman during the long Vicksburg campaign of 1862 and 1863, and with Sherman in the Meridian, Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns in the second half of the war. These Illinois men fought in several of the most important engagements in the western theater of the war and, in the spring of 1865, were present when the last important Confederate army in the east surrendered. The Forty-fifth was also well connected in western politics. Its unofficial name was the “Washburne Lead Mine Regiment,” in honor of U.S Representative Elihu B. Washburne, who used his contacts and influences to arm the regiment with the best weapons and equipment available early in the war. (The Lead Mine designation referred to the mining industry in northern Illinois.) In addition, …
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Mack, Thomas B., 1965-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"The Best Stuff Which the State Affords": a Portrait of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in the Civil War
This study examines the social and economic characteristics of the men who joined the Confederate Fourteenth Texas Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and provides a narrative history of the regiment's wartime service. The men of the Fourteenth Infantry enlisted in 1862 and helped to turn back the Federal Red River Campaign in April 1864. In creating a portrait of these men, the author used traditional historical sources (letters, diaries, medical records, secondary narratives) as well as statistical data from the 1860 United States census, military service records, and state tax rolls. The thesis places the heretofore unknown story of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry within the overall body of Civil War historiography.
Date:
December 1998
Creator:
Parker, Scott Dennis
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Service Honest and Faithful: The Thirty-Third Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Philippine War, 1899-1901
This manuscript is a study of the Thirty-Third Infantry, United States Volunteers, a regiment that was recruited in Texas, the South, and the Midwest and was trained by officers experienced from the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War. This regiment served as a front-line infantry unit and then as a constabulary force during the Philippine War from 1899 until 1901. While famous in the United States as a highly effective infantry regiment during the Philippine War, the unit's fame and the lessons that it offered American war planners faded in time and were overlooked in favor of conventional fighting. In addition, the experiences of the men of the regiment belie the argument that the Philippine War was a brutal and racist imperial conflict akin to later interventions such as the Vietnam War. An examination of the Thirty-Third Infantry thus provides valuable context into a war not often studied in the United States and serves as a successful example of a counterinsurgency.
Date:
December 2017
Creator:
Andersen, Jack David
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Frontier Defense in Texas: 1861-1865
The Texas Ranger tradition of over twenty-five years of frontier defense influenced the methods by which Texans provided for frontier defense, 1861-1865. The elements that guarded the Texas frontier during the war combined organizational policies that characterized previous Texas military experience and held the frontier together in marked contrast to its rapid collapse at the Confederacy's end. The first attempt to guard the Indian frontier during the Civil War was by the Texas Mounted Rifles, a regiment patterned after the Rangers, who replaced the United States troops forced out of the state by the Confederates. By the spring of 1862 the Frontier Regiment, a unit funded at state expense, replaced the Texas Mounted Rifles and assumed responsibility for frontier defense during 1862 and 1863. By mid-1863 the question of frontier defense for Texas was not so clearly defined as in the war's early days. Then, the Indian threat was the only responsibility, but the magnitude of Civil War widened the scope of frontier protection. From late 1863 until the war's end, frontier defense went hand in hand with protecting frontier Texans from a foe as deadly as Indians—themselves. The massed bands of deserters, Union sympathizers, and criminals that accumulated on …
Date:
December 1987
Creator:
Smith, David Paul, 1949-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Confederate Military Operations in Arkansas, 1861-1865
Arkansas occupied a key position in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department. It offered a gateway for Confederate troops to move north and secure Missouri for the Confederacy, or for Union troops to move south towards Texas and Louisiana. During the war, Union and Confederate armies moved back and forth across the state engaging in numerous encounters. This paper is a year by year study of those encounters and engagements occurring in Arkansas between 1861 and 1865. Emphasis is necessarily placed on the significant campaigns and engagements. Actions which occurred in adjacent states but which militarily affected Arkansas are also discussed. The majority of the material was compiled from the Official Records.
Date:
December 1978
Creator:
Fortin, Maurice G.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Daniel's Battery: A Narrative History and Socio-Economic Study of the Ninth Texas Field Battery
This thesis combines a traditional narrative history of a Confederate artillery battery with a socio-economic study of its members. A database was constructed using the Compiled Service Records, 1860 census, and county tax rolls. The information revealed similarities between the unit's members and their home area. Captain James M. Daniel organized the battery in Paris, Texas and it entered Confederate service in January 1862. The battery served in Walker's Texas Division. It was part of a reserve force at the Battle of Milliken's Bend and was involved in the battles of Bayou Bourbeau, Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill. The battery also shelled Union ships on the Mississippi River. Daniel's Battery officially surrendered at Natchitoches, Louisiana, in May 1865.
Date:
December 1995
Creator:
Perkins, John Drummond
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Making a Good Soldier: a Historical and Quantitative Study of the 15th Texas Infantry, C. S. A.
In late 1861, the Confederate Texas government commissioned Joseph W. Speight to raise an infantry battalion. Speight's Battalion became the Fifteenth Texas Infantry in April 1862, and saw almost no action for the next year as it marched throughout Texas, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory. In May 1863 the regiment was ordered to Louisiana and for the next seven months took an active role against Federal troops in the bayou country. From March to May 1864 the unit helped turn away the Union Red River Campaign. The regiment remained in the trans-Mississippi region until it disbanded in May 1865. The final chapter quantifies age, family status, wealthholdings, and casualties among the regiment's members.
Date:
December 1998
Creator:
Hamaker, Blake Richard
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Ranchero. (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1862
Weekly newspaper from Corpus Christi, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 11, 1862
Creator:
Maltby, H. A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Forging Their Legacy: Cooperation and Accommodation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1848-1870
Forging Their Legacy: Cooperation and Accommodation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is an examination of the relationships created during the mid-nineteenth century between Anglo and Tejano elites in the five counties that make up the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Conducted through a quantitative lens, the five-chapter study seeks to demonstrate that, although the period between 1848 and 1870 was fraught with conflict and violence, the Anglo and Tejano elite of the Lower Rio Grande Valley came together in cooperation in order not only to survive these troubling times but to prosper. The thesis begins by identifying and analyzing the economic and political elite in the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the 1850s. A new crop of Anglo immigrants arrived with the Mexican-American War, but only a small number willing to assimilate to local Tejano culture were able to leave their mark on the Lower Valley. Chapter 4 relates the effect of the Civil War on the elite of the Lower Valley. It explores the profitable cotton trade during the war and the struggle that both Anglo and Tejano elites faced during Reconstruction. The thesis concludes with a macro-analysis of the twenty-two-year period from 1848-1870. It summarizes overall trends found …
Date:
December 2018
Creator:
Ballesteros, Nicholas A.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Xenotopia: Death and Displacement in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century American Authorship
This dissertation is an examination of the interiority of American authorship from 1815–1866, an era of political, social, and economic instability in the United States. Without a well-defined historical narrative or an established literary lineage, writers drew upon death and the American landscape as tropes of unity and identification in an effort to define the nation and its literary future. Instead of representing nationalism or collectivism, however, the authors in this study drew on landscapes and death to mediate the crises of authorial displacement through what I term "xenotopia," strange places wherein a venerated American landscape has been disrupted or defamiliarized and inscribed with death or mourning. As opposed to the idealized settings of utopia or the environmental degradation of dystopia, which reflect the positive or negative social currents of a writer's milieu, xenotopia record the contingencies and potential problems that have not yet played out in a nation in the process of self-definition. Beyond this, however, xenotopia register as an assertion of agency and literary definition, a way to record each writer's individual and psychological experience of authorship while answering the call for a new definition of American literature in an indeterminate and undefined space.
Date:
December 2017
Creator:
Lewis, Darcy Hudelson
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Reconstruction in Texas 1865-1867
Presidential reconstruction in Texas proceeded under the direction of provisional governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton, a Texas Unionist. Texas Unionists had deep political roots in pre-war politics and sought to reconstruct along moderate lines. Following the constitutional convention of 1866, conservative James Webb Throckmorton won the gubernatorial race against Unionist Elisha Marshall Pease. Throckmorton's administration did very little to curb the intense violence directed at Unionists in Texas, and the conservative legislature passed legislation repressive to blacks. Texas Unionists grew increasingly radical, and Throckmorton clashed with the federal military over the question of authority. After the Radicals in Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, Throckmorton was removed as governor, and E.M. Pease was appointed in his place, ending presidential reconstruction in Texas.
Date:
December 1979
Creator:
Chapin, Walter T.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Walling Family of Nineteenth-Century Texas: An Examination of Movement and Opportunity on the Texas Frontier
The Walling Family of Nineteenth-Century Texas recounts the actions of the first four generations of the John Walling family. Through a heavily quantitative study, the study focuses on the patterns of movement, service, and seizing opportunity demonstrated by the family as they took full advantage of the benefits of frontier expansion in the Old South and particularly Texas. In doing so, it chronicles the role of a relatively unknown family in many of the most defining events of the nineteenth-century Texas experience such as the Texas Revolution, Mexican War, Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Close of the Frontier. Based on extensive research in census, tax, election, land, military, family paper, newspaper, and existing genealogical records; the study documents the contributions of family members to the settlement of more than forty counties while, at the same time, noting its less positive behaviors such as its open hostility to American Indians, and significant slave ownership. This study seeks to extend the work of other quantitative studies that looked at movement and political influence in the Old South, Texas, and specific communities to the microcosm of a single extended family. As a result, it should be of use to those wanting a greater …
Date:
December 2016
Creator:
Cure, Stephen
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 7, 1867
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 7, 1867
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Daily State Journal. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 274, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1872
Daily newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 20, 1872
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
South Carolina Leader. (Charleston, S.C.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 16, 1865
Weekly African-American newspaper from Charleston, South Carolina that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 16, 1865
Creator:
Coffin, Allen
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1869
Newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 21, 1869
Creator:
Maltby, H. A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Black-White Relations in Texas, 1874-1896
"This thesis proposes to investigate the theory posed by Comer Vann Howard in 'The Strange Career of Jim Crow.' Woodward claims that complete physical segregation of Negroes was not legally established in the Southern states until the turn of the century. He further contends the period from Reconstruction until the 1890s was an era when Negroes participated in many activities with whites. This work investigates Woodward's theory in its applicability to Texas between 1874 and 1898. The study begins with redemption, which came to Texas in 1874 with the election of the first Democratic governor since the Civil War. The concluding year of 1896 was chosen because the last Negro to serve in the Texas Legislature ended his term that year."-- leaf [i].
Date:
December 1970
Creator:
Irvin, Bobbye Hughes
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 100, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 23, 1866
Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 23, 1866
Creator:
Maltby, H. A. & Kinney, Somers
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Republican. (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1868
Weekly newspaper from the Marshall, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with and advertising.
Date:
December 18, 1868
Creator:
Loughery, Robert W. & McCutchan, A. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Civil Liberties and National Unity: Reaction to the Sedition Act in the Southern States, 1798
The traditional narrative of political party development in the United States of America during the latter half of the 1790s ascribes the decline in popularity of the Federalist Party in the Election of 1800 to that party's passage of controversial legislation, specifically the Sedition Act of 1798, prior to the election. Between the passage of the Sedition Act and the Election of 1800, however, the midterm elections of 1798-1799 transpired and resulted in a significant increase in Federalist popularity in four states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia. This study seeks to ascertain why these four states increased their support for the Federalist Party in 1798-1799, despite the passage of the Sedition Act by the Federalist Party. By examining newspapers and election results, this study analyzes the reaction of these four states to the passage of the Sedition Act and finds that generally, these states did not react strongly against the Sedition Act in the immediate aftermath of its passage. Instead, all four states urged national unity and emphasized the need to support the national government because the United States faced the threat of war with France. This study employs a state-by-state formula to determine each state's individual …
Date:
December 2017
Creator:
Robinson, Sarah Elizabeth
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 16, 1865
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 16, 1865
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1866
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 29, 1866
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 23, 1865
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 23, 1865
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History