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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Texas State Historical Association Launches Online Feature for Civil War Sesquicentennial
Handbook of Civil War Texas highlights the roles of Texans in the war
and the conflict’s extraordinary impact on their lives.
The Texas State Historical Association’s Handbook of Texas Online, a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture, has produced a comprehensive online resource to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
In commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, The Handbook of Texas Online presents a powerful new feature. The Handbook of Civil War Texas offers an unmatched online resource that tells the story of the roles of Texans in the war and the conflict's extraordinary impact on their lives. Explore more than 800 entries, including some 325 new articles about Texas people, places, and events in the Civil War.
Images from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection and from the Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints collections from SMU's DeGolyer Library enhance many of the entries and offer poignant glimpses into the lives changed by the events of 150 years ago.
First envisioned in 2005 by Mark Odintz, then Managing Editor of the New Handbook of Texas, he began to pull together the Handbook's coverage of Texas in the Civil War in a complete and coherent manner. TSHA Chief Historian and University of North Texas professor Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell guided the Civil War project to its completion.
Readers can explore the story of Texas in the Civil War through entries on battles, military units, officers, Confederate industry, forts and camps, organizations, and other topics. The reference covers every Texas military unit from the famed "Terry's Texas Rangers," to Walker's Texas Division--the only Confederate division composed entirely of soldiers from a single state. Civil War buffs can track the events and battles of the war, from the lesser-known confrontation at Adams Hill in May 1861 to the Battle of Palmito Ranch in May 1865. Notable military figures such as generals Albert Sidney Johnston, Lawrence "Sul" Ross, and Hiram Granbury are included along with obscure, yet colorful characters such as Mollie Bailey, who served as a nurse and, according to some sources, possibly a spy.
Though Campbell acknowledges that this project has “taken longer than the war itself to complete,” the combined efforts of Civil War scholars, local historians, students, and others have resulted in The Handbook of Civil War Texas— an important publication about a pivotal time during the evolution of the Lone Star State.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
The Handbook of Civil War Texas
Visit: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/civil-war
CONTACT:
Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell, Chief Historian, Texas State Historical Association
(940) 369-5200;
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IMAGES:
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Hiram Granbury, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs; DeGolyer Library, SMU
Brothers Emzy and G.M. Taylor, C.S.A., Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs, DeGolyer Library, SMU
**Founded as a private, nonprofit educational organization on March 2, 1897, the TSHA is one of the nation’s most dynamic regional history organizations. Reinforced by more than one hundred years of scholarship, its mission is to further the appreciation, understanding, and teaching of the rich and unique history of Texas through research, writing, publication, and educational programs. TSHA is housed at the University of North Texas.
Address tear sheets and/or weblinks to:
Texas State Historical Association
1155 Union Circle #311580
Denton, TX 76203–5017
http://www.tshaonline.org/contact
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