Description: Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861–January 1863 by Donald S. Frazier (Hardcover, 2009) CONDITION: *PLEASE READ* Very Good+ condition. Very light shelf wear to dust jacket and coverboards. Nameplate sticker (blacked out) on front endsheet (see picture). Some very faint spotting along page fore-edge visible in some light (see pictures). Spine is straight and in perfect structural condition. No obvious damage to binding or paper. No writing, highlighting or creases. Pages have not yellowed with age. Pictures are of the actual item you will receive. Any flaws not mentioned are not intentional. Please view pictures carefully. SHIPS ASAP WITH WRAPAROUND CARDBOARD BACKING OVER ARCHIVAL PAPER IN WATERPROOF POLY MAILER via USPS MEDIA MAIL If you have any questions about the item please do not hesitate to ask. DESCRIPTION: (from Amazon) Helen Dupuy, a French-speaking teenager living in Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, noted with horror the coming invaders. “ The first Yankee gunboats passed Donaldsville May 4 at 11 A.M.,” she wrote in her diary. Her home lay just a few miles from the Mississippi River, and word quickly arrived that Union sailors were confiscating sugar, cotton, and other contraband of war. The realities of her new situation soon became apparent—and ominous: “Then began the most awful pillaging.” Award-winning author Donald S. Frazier has revised and updated his award-winning book, Fire in the Cane Field: The Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861–January 1863. Beginning with the spasms of secession in the Pelican State, Frazier weaves a stirring tale of bravado, reaction, and war as he describes the consequences of disunion for the hapless citizens of Louisiana. The army and navy campaigns he portrays weave a tale of the Federal Government’s determination to suppress the newborn Confederacy by putting ever-increasing pressure on its adherents from New Orleans to Galveston. The surprising triumph of Texas troops on their home soil in early 1863 proved to be a decisive reverse to Union ambitions and doomed the region to even bloodier destruction to come. This bracing work, ten years in the making, ushered in a chronological string of five books on the Civil War in Louisiana and Texas, as Frazier presents fresh sources on new topics in a series of captivating narratives. Titles in his innovative Louisiana series include Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February–May 1863; Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi, June 1863–February 1864; and (forthcoming) Storm on the Farthest Shore: The 1863 Campaigns for Texas and Death at the Landing: The Contest for the Red River and the Collapse of Confederate Louisiana, March 1864–June 1865.
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Book Title: Fire in the Cane Field : the Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Te
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: State House Press
Publication Year: 2009
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Author: Donald S. Frazier
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: History, Political Science, Military History
Topic: American History, Civil War, History & Theory, U.S. Civil War History, Naval Military History, Texas History, Louisiana History, Texas A&M, United States History, American Civil War
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 384 Pages