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- catalog abstract ""The effects of the Civil War on civilian life in Texas are powerfully conveyed in the correspondence of Dr. Gideon Lincecum (1793-1874), a natural scientist and philosopher who moved to Texas in 1848 with his family of ten children and settled in Washington County. Having retired from an extensive and lucrative botanical medical practice in Mississippi, Gideon devoted much of his time in Texas before the war to studying the natural sciences and carrying on an extensive correspondence that included Northern scientists and even Charles Darwin. He used a letterpress to make copies of almost all of his letters, and these letterpress volumes, totaling more than a thousand pages, were preserved by one of his daughters. Gideon's letters provide a rich and detailed account of how one individual and his large extended family, all of whom were strongly committed to the Confederacy, kept up with the progress of the conflict and coped with the multitude of problems it created." "Lincecum's resourcefulness in the face of shortages included weaving Spanish moss into blankets and investigating the papermaking potential of milkweed. He was always optimistic about the prospects of the Confederacy and always willing to further the cause however he could. His dedication to the South often led him into astonishing diatribes, as when he wrote his son Lysander: "It would be a gratifying thing to my feelings, to be certified that every man, woman and child in the bounds of the confederacy had taken a solemn oath that to die fighting is far preferable to submission, and so long as they have life and strength to damage a yankee in any manner or form that they will continue to do so.""--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Civil War letters from the Texas home front".
- catalog alternative "Sword".
- catalog contributor b12065055.
- catalog contributor b12065056.
- catalog contributor b12065057.
- catalog contributor b12065058.
- catalog coverage "Texas History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
- catalog coverage "Texas History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects.".
- catalog coverage "Washington County (Tex.) Biography.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Lincecum's resourcefulness in the face of shortages included weaving Spanish moss into blankets and investigating the papermaking potential of milkweed. He was always optimistic about the prospects of the Confederacy and always willing to further the cause however he could. His dedication to the South often led him into astonishing diatribes, as when he wrote his son Lysander: "It would be a gratifying thing to my feelings, to be certified that every man, woman and child in the bounds of the confederacy had taken a solemn oath that to die fighting is far preferable to submission, and so long as they have life and strength to damage a yankee in any manner or form that they will continue to do so.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The effects of the Civil War on civilian life in Texas are powerfully conveyed in the correspondence of Dr. Gideon Lincecum (1793-1874), a natural scientist and philosopher who moved to Texas in 1848 with his family of ten children and settled in Washington County. Having retired from an extensive and lucrative botanical medical practice in Mississippi, Gideon devoted much of his time in Texas before the war to studying the natural sciences and carrying on an extensive correspondence that included Northern scientists and even Charles Darwin. He used a letterpress to make copies of almost all of his letters, and these letterpress volumes, totaling more than a thousand pages, were preserved by one of his daughters.".
- catalog description "Gideon's letters provide a rich and detailed account of how one individual and his large extended family, all of whom were strongly committed to the Confederacy, kept up with the progress of the conflict and coped with the multitude of problems it created."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-371) and index.".
- catalog description "Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1. Foreshadowings of Conflict 13 -- Chapter 2. Secession 69 -- Chapter 3. War 115 -- Chapter 4. 1862 145 -- Chapter 5. 1863 203 -- Chapter 6.1864 256 -- Chapter 7. 1865 299 -- Chapter 8. After the War 337 -- Appendix. Index of Lincecum Family Members 355 -- Selected References 363 -- Index 373.".
- catalog extent "x, 378 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Gideon Lincecum's sword.".
- catalog identifier "157441125X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gideon Lincecum's sword.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "Gideon Lincecum's sword.".
- catalog spatial "Texas History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
- catalog spatial "Texas History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Washington County".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects.".
- catalog spatial "Washington County (Tex.) Biography.".
- catalog subject "973.7/09/2764 21".
- catalog subject "E605 .L75 2001".
- catalog subject "Lincecum, Gideon, 1793-1874 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Physicians Texas Washington County Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Scientists Texas Washington County Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1. Foreshadowings of Conflict 13 -- Chapter 2. Secession 69 -- Chapter 3. War 115 -- Chapter 4. 1862 145 -- Chapter 5. 1863 203 -- Chapter 6.1864 256 -- Chapter 7. 1865 299 -- Chapter 8. After the War 337 -- Appendix. Index of Lincecum Family Members 355 -- Selected References 363 -- Index 373.".
- catalog title "Civil War letters from the Texas home front".
- catalog title "Gideon Lincecum's sword : Civil War letters from the Texas home front / edited by Jerry Bryan Lincecum, Edward Hake Phillips, Peggy A. Redshaw.".
- catalog title "Sword".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives Confederate. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".