Jr Cotham: 2 books
Battle on the Bay
The Civil War Struggle for Galveston
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Civil War history of Galveston is one of the last untold stories from America's bloodiest war, despite the fact that Galveston was a focal point of hostilities throughout the conflict. As other Southern ports fell to the Union, Galveston emerged as one of the Confederacy's only lifelines to the...
Sabine Pass
The Confederacy's Thermopylae
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In an 1882 speech, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis made an exuberant claim: "That battle at Sabine Pass was more remarkable than the battle at Thermopylae." Indeed, Sabine Pass was the site of one of the most decisive Civil War battles fought in Texas. But unlike the Spartans, who succumbed...