Tag: Galveston

Free Download Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns: The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations (Command Decisions in America’s Civil War) by Edward T. Cotham
English | December 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1621909131 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 8.34 MB
The Galveston Campaigns were a series of naval and overland battles that pitted Confederate General John B. Magruder and his often-improvised Confederate forces against General Nathaniel P. Banks and a variety of Union army and naval forces. A Federal fleet entered Galveston Bay on October 4, 1862, and the city surrendered after the expiration of a four-day truce. However, on New Year’s Day of 1863, Magruder coordinated a bold new attack to retake Galveston using a land bombardment and two cottonclad Confederate gunboats. Aided by victories at the Battle of Sabine Pass and two purely naval engagements in Texas waters, the city would remain in Southern hands and end the war as the last major Confederate port.

Free Download T. Felder Dorn, "The Downfall of Galveston’s May Walker Burleson: Texas Society Marriage & Carolina Murder Scandal"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1467139661, 1540228584 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.6 mb
Jennie May Walker Burleson was envied for having everything a woman of her time could want-the privileged upbringing, the dazzling good looks, the dashing war hero husband. She was admired for demonstrating that a woman could want more, from the front of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession to the bottom of a Mesoamerican archaeological dig. But as she stood over the body of her husband’s second wife, gun in hand, society’s envy and admiration quickly hardened into pity and scorn. T. Felder Dorn examines the complicated trajectory of her life as socialite, suffragist and shooter.

Free Download David G. McComb, "Galveston: A History"
English | 1986 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 029272053X, 0292720491 | EPUB | 5,5 mb
On the Gulf edge of Texas between land and sea stands Galveston Island. Shaped continually by wind and water, it is one of earth’s ongoing creations-time is forever new. Here, on the shoreline, embraced by the waves, a person can still feel the heartbeat of nature. And yet, for all the idyllic possibilities, Galveston’s history has been anything but tranquil. Across Galveston’s sands have walked Indians, pirates, revolutionaries, the richest men of nineteenth-century Texas, soldiers, sailors, bootleggers, gamblers, prostitutes, physicians, entertainers, engineers, and preservationists. Major events in the island’s past include hurricanes, yellow fever, smuggling, vice, the Civil War, the building of a medical school and port, raids by the Texas Rangers, and, always, the struggle to live in a precarious location.

Free Download Sally E. Antrobus, "Galveston Bay (Volume 8) (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 158544460X, 1585444618 | PDF | pages: 170 | 6.7 mb
Galveston Bay is the recreational center of the Texas coast-a fishing, boating, and birdwatching playground for the almost four million people who live on or near it. A shallow estuary of about 350,000 acres, the bay supports a rich assortment of wildlife and a commercial fishery that pulls millions of pounds of crabs, shrimp, and oysters from the water each year. Gateway to the Port of Houston, Galveston Bay is also a major corridor for huge volumes of international shipping and is home to the nation’s largest petrochemical manufacturing complex.

Free Download The Galveston Diet: Your Ultimate Menopause Health Plan by Mary Claire Haver
English | ISBN: 0241634490 | 292 pages | PDF | 3.46 Mb
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