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Spartan Band: Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War
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In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplain’s eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organized in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually evolved into a tough, well-trained unit during action at Lake Providence, Fort De Russy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry, as part of Maj. Gen. John G. Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Reid researched letters, documents, and diaries gleaned from more than one hundred descendants of the soldiers, answering many questions relating to their experiences and final resting places. He also includes detailed information on battle casualty figures, equipment issued to each company, slave ownership, wealth of officers, deaths due to disease, and the effects of conscription on the regiment’s composition. “The hard-marching, hard-fighting soldiers of the 13th Texas Cavalry helped make Walker’s Greyhound Division famous, and their story comes to life through Thomas Reid’s exhaustive research and entertaining writing style. This book should serve as a model for Civil War regimental histories.”—Terry L. Jones, author of Lee’s Tigers
Date:
March 15, 2005
Creator:
Reid, Thomas
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest
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On a hot summer’s day in Montana, a daring frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his promising career. A member of the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 1884, Clarke graduated dead last, and while short on academic application, he was long on charm and bravado. Clarke obtained a commission with the black troops of the Tenth Cavalry, earning his spurs with these “Buffalo Soldiers.” He evolved into a fearless field commander at the troop level, gaining glory and first-hand knowledge of what it took to campaign in the West. During his brief, action-packed career, Clarke saved a black trooper’s life while under Apache fire and was awarded the Medal of Honor. A chance meeting brought Clarke together with artist Frederic Remington, who brought national attention to Clarke when he illustrated the exploit for an 1886 Harper’s Weekly. The officer and artist became friends, and Clarke served as a model and consultant for future artwork by Remington. Remington’s many depictions of Clarke added greatly to the cavalryman’s luster. In turn, the artist gained fame and fortune in part from drawing on Clarke as his muse. The story of these two unlikely comrades tells much about the …
Date:
October 15, 2020
Creator:
Langellier, John P. (John Phillip)
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
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
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The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 112, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1939
Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 15, 1939
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 078, Ed. 1 Monday, February 15, 2010
Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
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February 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
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Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 112, Ed. 1 Monday, February 15, 1915
Daily newspaper from Ardmore, Oklahoma. Coverage includes local, state, and national news, along with advertising.
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February 15, 1915
Creator:
Easley, John F.
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Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
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July 15, 2010
Creator:
Bush, Michael
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Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 54, No. 112, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1968
Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
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March 15, 1968
Creator:
Winn, Barbara A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 15, 2005
Creator:
Brown, Gloria
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 112, Ed. 2 Sunday, November 15, 1936
Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 15, 1936
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 61, No. 112, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1950
Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 15, 1950
Creator:
Gaylord, E. K.
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Seventh Year, No. 112, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 15, 1887
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
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May 15, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 1990
Daily newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
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August 15, 1990
Creator:
Keys, Clarke
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Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 142, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1990
Daily newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
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June 15, 1990
Creator:
Keys, Clarke
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 112, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 15, 1894
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
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March 15, 1894
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Carlos Montoya, May 15, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Carlos Montoya. Montoya joined the National Guard in 1938. He was assigned as a Battery Clerk for Troop A, cavalry. In January of 1941 he traded his horse for anti-aircraft, joining the 200th Coast Artillery, continuing to serve as a Battery Clerk corporal. They were transferred to the Philippines in August of 1941, providing air defense for Clark Field while based at Fort Stotsenburg. After the 8 December 1941 attack made upon Clark Field, Montoya and his unit were captured by the Japanese in 1942. Montoya became a prisoner-of-war, suriving the Bataan Death March. He was then captive in the Philippines Bilibid Prison for 1 year and 9 months, then transferred to a prison camp in Niigata, Japan, Camp 5B for 1 year and 11 months. He provides vivid details of these events in his life. He was liberated in August of 1945, and given a disability discharge in July of 1946.
Date:
May 15, 2002
Creator:
Montoya, Carlos
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 2, 1838 - 1839
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This second volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839. By early 1838, the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether. Stephen L. Moore shows how the major general of the new Texas Militia worked around legal constraints in order to keep mounted rangers in service. Expeditions against Indians during 1838 and 1839 were frequent, conducted by militiamen, rangers, cavalry, civilian volunteer groups and the new Frontier Regiment of the Texas Army. From the Surveyors' Fight to the Battle of Brushy Creek, each engagement is covered in new detail. The volume concludes with the Cherokee War of 1839, which saw the assembly of more Texas troops than had engaged the Mexican army at San Jacinto. Moore fully covers the failed peace negotiations, the role of the Texas Rangers in this campaign, and the last stand of heroic Chief Bowles. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore provides a clear view of life as a frontier fighter in the Republic of Texas. The reader will find herein numerous and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, as well as a complete list of Texan …
Date:
March 15, 2006
Creator:
Moore, Stephen L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 080, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
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February 15, 2011
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 1, November 20, 1872 - July 28, 1876
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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 six books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 1 begins with Bourke’s years as aide-de-camp to General Crook during the Apache campaigns and in dealings with Cochise. Bourke’s ethnographic notes on the Apaches continued with further observations on the Hopis in 1874. The next year he turned his pen on the …
Date:
March 15, 2003
Creator:
Robinson, Charles M., III
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 2, July 29, 1876 - April 7, 1878
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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 Bourkes 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 six books easily accessible to the modern researcher. This volume opens as Crook prepares for the expedition that would lead to his infamous and devastating Horse Meat March. Although Bourke retains his loyalty to Crook throughout the detailed account, his patience is sorely tried at times. Bourke's description of the march is …
Date:
October 15, 2005
Creator:
Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896 & Robinson, Charles M. III
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
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 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
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The UNT Digital Library
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 3, June 1, 1878-June 22, 1880
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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 3 begins in 1878 with a discussion of the Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose death Bourke called "an event of such importance, and with its attendant circumstances pregnant with so much of good or evil for the settlement between …
Date:
October 15, 2007
Creator:
Bourke, John Gregory
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Folklore: in All of Us, in All We Do
Compilation of articles about various topics related to folklore organized into five chapters by subject: "The first tackles this issue of folklore and its relationship to history, with some of the articles trying to provide some of that folkloric filler to historical facts. Another chapter focuses on women; one features various types of occupational lore; and another is a tongue-in-cheek look at 'shady characters' such as police officers, politicians, and horsetraders. A final chapter has no theme; it is a catch-all, containing a few interesting articles you may remember from some of our [Texas Folklore Society's] most recent meetings" (p. viii).
Date:
December 15, 2006
Creator:
Untiedt, Kenneth L.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library