RARE CIVIL WAR DIARY 1864 And 1865 BAttlefield Account
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.Rare Book, almost impossible tofind. This Book was converted to CD to Share the Civil War Account of theSouth. A Joint project of many hours. Very well done, It was done for theHistorical Society and is truly a Labor of love. CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS BY CONFEDERATEPOSTMASTER GEN. This is an Excellent Book on CD, It is the MEMOIRS WITH SPECIALREFERENCE TO SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR JOHN H. REAGAN, LL. D Postmaster‑General of the Confederacy; Sometime United States Senator; Chairman of theR...ailroad Commission of Texas; President of the Texas State HistoricalAssociation Cause of the Confederate States of America DAUGHTERS OF THECONFEDERACY SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS authentic documents, Confederate andFederal, the justice of the cause of the late Confederate States Four months atFort Houston Civil War , South , General Houston , Cherokees, Kickapoos, Shawnees and Delawares , Texas enemy's sharpshooters , Sniper , battle of theWilderness, General Grant THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1864 AND 1865 , This is an excellentFirst hand account of Pre civil War Events and His own entry into the Civil WarEvents a prespective from the Bottom to the top. The ideas behind the thinkingto justify the War and why the south was so steadfact to fight For the truevalues of the south. An excellent read. 350 Pages w/ Index and list at the endof All men listed and places. Manual CD (Remember this is a CD, You must besatisfied with its operation, no complaints yet. Copyright Reserved and CDCoded for Tracing . This is a CD and comes w/ Adobe Reader. Great CD withThumbnails and easy to Print from. Good Luck John Henninger Reagan (October 8, 1818 – March 6, 1905), was a leading 19th century American politician from the U.S. state of Texas. A Democrat, Reagan left the U.S. House of Representatives when his stateseceded from the Union to join the Confederate States of America. Duringthe American Civil War he served in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis asPostmaster Generl. After the Confederate defeat, he called for cooperation withthe federal government and became unpopular, but returned to public office whenhis predictions of harsh treatment for resistance were proved correct. Reagan was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, to Timothy Richard and Elizabeth Lusk Reagan. (Some sources say he was born inthe county seat, Sevierville.) He left Tennesseeat nineteen and like many from Tennesseetraveled in Texas.There he worked as a surveyor from 1839 to 1843, and afterward was a farmer in Kaufman County until 1851. He studied law on hisown and was licensed to practice law in 1846, opening an office in Buffalo. The same year he obtained hislicense, he was elected a probate judge in Henderson Countyand in 1847 he went to the state legislature but was defeated for a second termin 1849. He returned to his law practice and was elected a district judge in Palestine, serving from1852 to 1857. His labors in defeating the American Party (Know-Nothings) in Texas led to his election to Congress in 1857 from Texas's First District. In Congress, he was a moderate anda supporter of the Union, but resigned from Congress on January 15, 1861 andreturned to his home state when it became clear that Texas would secede. There he participated inthe secession convention that met at Austinon the last day of January. The convention voted for Texas to leave the union and for Reagan torepresent the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress, but within themonth he was in the cabinet instead. President Jefferson Davis named himto head the new Confederate States of America Post-office Department and heaccepted. Reagan was an able administrator, presiding over the only cabinetdepartment that functioned well during the war. Despite the hostilities of theCivil War, the United States Post Office Department continued operations in theConfederacy until June 1, 1861, whereupon the new Confederate service assumedits functions. Reagan's masterstroke in establishing his department was sendingan agent to., with letters asking the heads of the United States Post OfficeDepartment's various bureaus to come work for him. Nearly all did so, bringingcopies of their records, contracts, account books, etc. "Reagan in effecthad stolen the U.S. Post Office, " historian William C. Davis wrote. WhenPresident Davis asked his cabinet for the status of their departments, Reaganreported he had his up and running in only six weeks. Davis was amazed. Reagan cut expenses by eliminatingcostly and little-used routes and forcing the railroads that carried the mailto reduce their rates. Despite the problems the war caused, his departmentmanaged to turn a profit, "the only post office department in Americanhistory to pay its own way" wrote William C. Davis. Reagan was the onlymember of the cabinet to oppose Robert . Lee's offensive into Pennsylvania in June-July 1863. He insteadsupported a proposal to detach the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginiato reinforce Joseph E. Johnston in Mississippiso that he could break the Siege of Vicksburg. Historian Shelby Foote notedthat, as the only cabinet member from west of the Mississippi, Reagan was acutely sensitive to the consequences of Vicksburg's capture.
