The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine The Illustrated Note Book of Henry O Gusley Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series 1st Edition by Cotham, Edward ISBN 978-0292712836 0292712839
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ISBN 10: 0292712839
ISBN 13: 978-0292712836
Author: Jr. Cotham, Edward T.
On September 28, 1863, the Galveston Tri-Weekly News caught its readers’ attention with an item headlined “A Yankee Note-Book.” It was the first installment of a diary confiscated from U.S. Marine Henry O. Gusley, who had been captured at the Battle of Sabine Pass. Gusley’s diary proved so popular with readers that they clamored for more, causing the newspaper to run each excerpt twice until the whole diary was published. For many in Gusley’s Confederate readership, his diary provided a rare glimpse into the opinions and feelings of an ordinary Yankee—an enemy whom, they quickly discovered, it would be easy to regard as a friend.
This book contains the complete text of Henry Gusley’s Civil War diary, expertly annotated and introduced by Edward Cotham. One of the few journals that have survived from U.S. Marines who served along the Gulf Coast, it records some of the most important naval campaigns of the Civil War, including the spectacular Union success at New Orleans and the embarrassing defeats at Galveston and Sabine Pass. It also offers an unmatched portrait of daily life aboard ship. Accompanying the diary entries are previously unpublished drawings by Daniel Nestell, a doctor who served in the same flotilla and eventually on the same ship as Gusley, which depict many of the locales and events that Gusley describes.
Together, Gusley’s diary and Nestell’s drawings are like picture postcards from the Civil War—vivid, literary, often moving dispatches from one of “Uncle Sam’s nephews in the Gulf.”
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. The Battle Below New Orleans
Chapter 2. Ship Island, the Pearl River, and Lake Pontchartrain
Chapter 3. Pensacola
Chapter 4. New Orleans
Chapter 5. The Mississippi River
Chapter 6. Baton Rouge, Plaquemine, and Donaldsonville
Chapter 7. The Return to Pensacola and Ship Island
Chapter 8. The Capture of Galveston
Chapter 9. Matagorda Bay
Chapter 10. The Battle of Galveston
Chapter 11. The Capture of U.S.S. Hatteras
Chapter 12. A New Commander
Chapter 13. Mississippi Sound
Chapter 14. The Swamps of Louisiana
Chapter 15. Butte a la Rose
Chapter 16. Mobile Bay
Chapter 17. The Return to the Teche Country
Chapter 18. The Battle of Sabine Pass
Chapter 19. Letters from Prison
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