Tempest over Texas: The Fall and Winter Campaigns of 1863-1864

by Donald S. Frazier

Overview

Tempest Over Texas: The Fall and Winter Campaigns, 1863–1864 is the fourth installment in Dr. Donald S. Frazier’s award-winning Louisiana Quadrille series. Picking up the story of the Civil War in Louisiana and Texas after the fall of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, Tempest Over Texas describes Confederate confusion on how to carry on in the Trans-Mississippi given the new strategic realities. Likewise, Federal forces gathered from Memphis to New Orleans were in search of a new mission. International intrigues and disasters on distant battlefields would all conspire to confuse and perplex war-planners. One thing remained, however. The Stars and Stripes needed to fly once again in Texas, and as soon as possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933337838
Publisher:	State House/McWhiney Foundation Press
Publication date:	08/17/2020
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

DONALD S. FRAZIER is the award-winning author of books on the American Civil War, Texas History, Military History, and the US-Mexican Borderlands. He is currently serving as President and CEO of the McWhiney History Education Group in Abilene, Texas. Frazier is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, an elected member of the prestigious Philosophical Society of Texas—the oldest learned organization in the state—as well serving on the board of the Texas Historical Foundation. He teaches at Schreiner University.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 1

1 The French Intervention 5

2 The Next Campaign 24

3 Creating the Trans-Mississippi 52

4 Restoring a Confederate Order 76

5 Reconnaissance 97

6 Sabine Pass 107

7 Morganza 136

8 The Invasion of Louisiana 159

9 Hurricane at Botany Bay 176

10 Texas Overland 196

11 The Battles for Opelousas 217

12 The Houston Campaign 241

13 Bayou Bourbeau 265

14 The Beaches of Texas 293

15 Retreat and Advance 307

16 Esperanza 324

17 A Persistent Enemy 344

18 Texas 369

19 Allons au Texas 380

20 Matagorda 394

21 1864 406

22 A Confederate Nation 424

Epilogue Again 443

Endnotes 452

Bibliography 481

Index 494