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A Thrilling Narrative
This Civil War memoir of Capt. Dennis E. Haynes is both unique and rare. Not only did few southern unionists write of their experiences after the war, Haynes’s is the only publication by a Louisiana unionist. Furthermore, it is the only account by a member of the First Louisiana Battalion Cavalry Scouts, a unit that existed for less than three months and saw its only real action during the Red River Campaign of 1864. Haynes’s memoir is a historic collection of his wartime experiences as a unionist in the Confederate South. Among his writings, Haynes describes how he opposed the secession of Texas and thus became a hunted man. He also tells of his harrowing odyssey to reach Union troops in Louisiana. Every step of the way, Haynes provides details, sometimes graphic, of the harassment and cruelty he and many others like him suffered at the hands of his Confederate neighbors.
Talk of the Town
As the sleepy courthouse town of Alexandria, Louisiana, began to recover from the devastation and trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Daily Town Talk appeared. Nicknamed Alexandria's postage stamp paper by a rival publication, the Town Talk aimed to be the best daily outside of New Orleans and became one of the most successful regional newspapers of its kind. Fredrick M. Spletstoser tells the story of the paper's first sixty years and of the town's triumphs and setbacks during that same time. An unpretentious country journal, the Town Talk would become in the second half of the twentieth century a pioneer in newspaper technology under the leadership of Joe D. Smith, one of the mo...
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
LeDoux
Louis LeDoux (ca. 1639-1708) emigrated from France and settled on land near Montreal, Québec, and married Marie Valiquet. His grandson, Pierre LeDoux (ca. 1714-1768), immigrated to Pointe Coupée, Louisiana and married Cecile Rondot. Descendants and relatives lived in Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
In the Habit of Acting Together
Adds a sharper perspective to the scholarly literature available on a pivotal period in Louisiana's political history.
The Felicianas
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The Hunters of Bedford County, Virginia
James Hunter was born April 8, 1740, and died January 30, 1821.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
