Riding with the 19Th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the Mississippi 1862-1865

Riding With the 19th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the Mississippi 1862-1865 is the story of William Hardy Bennett's Confederate military service as a Private in Co. B of the 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence and his experiences during Reconstruction that followed the war. He enlisted with the Mesquite Light Horse Militia in Dallas County, Texas on 8 January 1861 some one and a half months before the citizens of Texas ratified the State's Ordinance of Secession. Some fourteen months later on 21 March 1862, he enlisted with Captain Allen Beard's Company, Burford's Texas Cavalry in Dallas, Texas to defend his family, Dallas County, and the State of Texas against a Yankee army determined to invade and destroy the State. Beard's Company became Co. B of the 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment and was an important part of Colonel William Henry Parsons' Texas Brigade that fought with distinction in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Hardy fought in some fifty engagements and was often in harm's way, but he survived and returned to Dallas County, Texas after the war and prospered despite the economic and political problems that plagued the county during Reconstruction.

Riding With the 19th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the Mississippi 1862-1865

Biographies & Memoirs

Cole, Gary

Regional U.S.

Trafford Publishing

Artless is a memoir by a passionate, ambitious professional who played hard in the alien arenas of the performing arts and Republican politics until the George W. Bush administration disabused him of the notion that he could straddle the cultural chasm between the two. For over 20 years Gary D. Cole excelled as both a bourgeois (Stanford Law graduate, CIA lawyer, law firm partner, civic mover and shaker) and a bohemian (actor, author of a play that flowed out of his entanglement in the Iran/Contra scandal, theater company founder, theater video entrepreneur). The Bush administration put an end to Cole's dual existence when it offered him the job of running the $60 million annual grants program at the National Endowment for the Arts, then within days pulled its offer. Withdrawal of this coveted appointment was reportedly due to two nationally acclaimed productions filmed by Cole's theater video company, StageDirect, one about converting gays and lesbians to heterosexuality and the other featuring a cartoon-type title character whose name included a four-letter word. Artless is a searching and often hilarious account of a life spent shuttling between disconnected universes, as well as an indictment of Republican cultural intolerance by a longtime GOP activist.

Artless: The Odyssey of a Republican Cultural Creative

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Ooligan Press

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