Five Years in Texas
by Thomas North
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About this eBook
- Author
- North, Thomas
- Title
- Five Years in Texas Or, What you did not hear during the war from January 1861 to January 1866. A narrative of his travels, experiences, and observation
- Credits
- Produced by Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F350.5: United States local history: Mississippi River and Valley. Middle West
- Subject
- Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49444
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49444
- Release Date
- July 15, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FIVE YEARS IN TEXAS; OR, WHAT YOU DID NOT HEAR DURING THE WAR FROM JANUARY 1861 TO JANUARY 1866.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.CHAPTER I. HON. MARTIN P. SWEET—INTERVIEW WITH, AND EULOGIUM.
- 5.CHAPTER II. THE TRIP TO GALVESTON.
- 6.CHAPTER III. SOCIAL TYPES.
- 7.CHAPTER IV.
- 8.CHAPTER V. NEW ORLEANS AND GALVESTON.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON TASTES AND APPETITES.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. TEXAS OATH OF OFFICE
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. THE DOCTOR'S PRIZE-RING ILLUSTRATION.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. BABEL OF TONGUES.—SAM HOUSTON.
- 13.CHAPTER X. SAM HOUSTON'S SPEECH.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. ARGUMENTS ON SECESSION IN OUTLINE.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. TEXAS NEVER INVADED.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. NICARAGUA SMITH.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. THE CAPTURED LETTER.—MRS. E.'s EXILE.
- 18.CHAPTER XV. LAWLESSNESS AND CRIME.
- 19.CHAPTER XVI. THE TWO DAYS' MEETING.
- 20.CHAPTER XVII. THE CONSCRIPT LAW AND HOW THE WRITER BEAT IT.
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII. A PLOT AGAINST THE WRITER'S LIFE—MORE ABOUT TEXAS.
- 22.CHAPTER XIX. LEE'S SURRENDER.—EFFECT UPON TEXAS SOLDIERS.—WRITER'S RETURN TO TEXAS.
- 23.CHAPTER XX. GOV. HAMILTON—THE THIRTY NEROS—THE OLD GERMAN AND HIS WIFE—THE FIGHT WITH INDIANS—A NATIVE TEXAN'S OPINION OF GERMANS.
- 24.CHAPTER XXI. NORTHERN TEXAS.
- 25.OLD LETTERS. — CANTO I. — CANTO II. — CANTO III.
- 26.Transcriber's Notes
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