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January 2010 General Orders Vol. 21 No. 6 General Orders Vol. 21, No. 6 Jan, Lewis’s Texas Brigade 2010 www.houstoncivilwar.com were firmly in control of the major Texas ports. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut complained MEETING – THURS, Jan 21, 2010 that he had “nothing but disaster” to report about the Union’s Texas campaign. The dra- Briar Club matic story of how the Texas coast came back 2603 Timmons Lane @ Westheimer into Confederate hands is the focus of Ed Cot- 6:00 Cash Bar ham’s multi-media presentation to the HCWRT. 7:00 Dinner & Meeting The University of North Texas Press has E-Mail [email protected] recently released a book entitled The Seventh OR call him at (281) 479-1232 to Reserve Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil by Monday 6 PM Prior to Jan 21 Dinner $30; Lecture Only $5 War. Edited by Kenneth W. Howell, this new E-Mail Reservation is Preferred; study includes contributions by 17 of the finest You Do Need to Reserve for Lecture Only! scholars in the field of Texas and Civil War History. Among the chapters in this work is Ed Cotham’s Nothing but Disaster: The Failure of Union Plans to Capture Texas. Ed’s chapter covers the crucial period from the ED COTHAM PRESENTS: recapture of Galveston at the beginning of 1863 NOTHING BUT DISASTER: THE through the remarkable FAILURE OF UNION PLANS TO Confederate victory at Sa- CAPTURE TEXAS bine Pass in September, 1863. The book will be available for purchase at the January meeting, and this will be Ed’s first formal book signing event for the new work. A FEW WORDS ABOUT OUR SPEAKER Edward T. Cotham, Jr. is President of the Terry Foundation in Houston, Texas. He holds Edward T. Cotham, Jr. an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Houston and a Masters De- In the fall of 1862, a Union conquest of Texas gree in Economics from the University of Chi- seemed inevitable. By the end of 1863, how- cago. A native Texan, Ed returned to Texas to ever, just a year later, the situation had been obtain a Law Degree from the University of completely reversed and Confederate forces Texas in 1979. Our speaker is a former President of the Second in line is Lee’s Houston Civil War Round Table and is active in Colonels – A Biographical the Civil War Preservation movement. He is a Register of the Field Offi- founder and director of the Friends of Sabine cers of the Army of North- Pass Battleground, a non-profit group dedicated ern Virginia by Robert K. to supporting preservation and interpretation of Krick and is donated by that important battlefield. our member and Past President, Jim Godlove. He is also a life member of the Civil War Pres- Also donated by Jim is ervation Trust, as well as a member of the The Autobiography of Company of Military Historians and the Authors’ Wilburn Hill King, edited Guild. In September, 2005, he was awarded by L. David Norris; and to the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal by complete this month’s raffle, we will offer the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In Leslie’s Illustrated Civil War, donor unknown. May, 2006, he was further awarded the Frank C. Vandiver Award of Merit by the Houston Civil Our supply of quality books and other reading War Round Table. and visual materials is becoming somewhat limited. We want to encourage members to Ed’s published works include Battle on the donate some of your well-read Civil War mater- Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston ials to our raffle collection or, in lieu of this, to (1998, University of Texas Press) and Sabine make a small monetary donation for the Pass: the Confederacy’s Thermopylae (2004). purchase of suitable books, periodicals, maps, His Sabine Pass work was the winner of the etc. for future Round Table raffles. Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize for Civil War Bat- tlefield Preservation. That award is given annu- ally by the Austin Civil War Round Table to the author of the book that best promotes the heri- tage and preservation of endangered battle- fields of the Civil War. The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Notebook of Henry O. Susley was published by the Universi- ty Press in January, 2006. The unique nature of this book made it a best-seller and led to an interview on National Public Radio that brought Ed and his book to the attention of Civil War en- thusiasts across the country. So make your reservations to listen, learn, and AUSTIN GROUP FINDS be entertained by Ed on the evening of January SUNKEN UNION GUNBOAT 21 at the Briar Club. It should be a great even- ing and well worth the time invested for every- IN GALVESTON BAY one setting aside this evening for the HCWRT! On New Year’s Day, 1863, Union soldiers oc- cupied Galveston. As Confederate steamers JANUARY BOOK RAFFLE launched an attack to regain the island, the by DONNIE STOWE USS Westfield, a Union gunship, ran aground on a sandbar north of Pelican Island. This month the HCWRT book raffle begins As the ship’s commander, William B. Ren- with History Teaches Us to Hope – Reflec- shaw, set about preparing to destroy the West- tions on the Civil War and Southern History. field rather than allow her to be captured, the The book is authored by Charles P. Roland and vessel exploded, killing Renshaw and a boat was contributed to our Round Table by Norm crew assisting him. Contents of the boat that Lewis. had not previously been removed by the crew before the explosion lay buried deep in the into the port of New Orleans. She later Texas City Channel for almost 150 years. repositioned herself in the Gulf of Mexico and assumed blocading duties off the Texas Coast. Fast-forward to 2004, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced a $71 million As of 2007, no other ship in the United States partnership with the oil and refinery businesses Navy has been commissioned USS Westfield. focused upon a navigable Texas City Chan- nel waterway. To safeguard the archaeological preservation of the area, the Corps hired an Austin nautical archaeology group headed by CIVIL WAR PHOTOS OF THE Bob Gearhart in association with PBS&J, a MONTH by Karen Stone national engineering, environmental, and construction planning company. January’s recipient of the recognition for this In November of 2009, divers and salvage photography falls to Ron Featherston for his crews relatively certain of the archaeological two Shiloh autumn photos of the Tennessee importance of the area bumped into an 11-foot- monument and Bloody Pond. I chose the first long piece of metal with an opening at one end. of Ron’s photos because of the clear detail of The site was that of the USS Westfield’s 10,000 the imagery in contrast with the fog-laden back- pound Dahlgren cannon, one of some 1,200 ground of trees and cannonry. I chose the sec- made during the Civil War and one of only 50 ond for much the same reason. The reflected recovered. Artifact retrieval operations com- images in the water setting are both poignant menced soon after the find in preparation for for and tranquil. a planned 5-foot deepening of the Texas City Channel in that area. The Corps and Galveston Thank you, Ron! District and Navy salvage experts were en- gaged in artifact recovery efforts at the site. The cannon was raised on November 22, 2009 and is currently undergoing restoration process- es at Texas A&M in College Station. The elec- trolysis immersion is anticipated to require up to two years for salt removal and metal preserva- tion. Tennessee Monument, Shiloh The USS Westfield had been built in 1861 as a Staten Island Ferry and was purchased by the Navy from Cornelius Vanderbilt later that same year and converted into a gunboat. Before serving in Texas, the ship was engaged in sup- porting operations under Commander David Dixon Porter in preparation for Farragut’s run between two forts guarding the entrance waters Bloody Pond, Shiloh The most important section in the Hollywood burial grounds is Presidents’ Circle, where James Monroe and John Tyler are buried. HCWRT SPEAKERS Other notables elsewhere in the cemetery in- 2009 – 2010 CAMPAIGN clude Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Jan 21 Ed Cotham six Virginia governors, 22 Confederate gener- als, two Supreme Court justices, Confederate Feb 18 Dick Sommers Mar 18 Patrick Falci soldiers, business leaders and literary figures. Apr 15 Tony Banzhaf May 20 TBA It has been determined that a full restoration of the site and its monu- ments could cost as much as $7 million. Income FOCUS: TWO FAMOUS from about 200 burials a RICHMOND CEMETERIES: year produces only about half of the cemetery’s $1 HOLLYWOOD AND SHOCKOE million to $1.5 million op- HILL erating budget, with only about $75,000 allocated to restoration and preser- vation. Hollywood Pyramid These two very historic cemeteries in Rich- mond have endured the cruel effects of time In an effort to raise needed funds, Friends and nature over the past 162 and 187 years, re- Board members set a first phase goal of $1.5 spectively. Both on the National Register of to $2 million. That amount would repair Presi- Historic Places, they are the burial grounds for dents’ Circle and surrounding areas. some of Virginia’s most prominent people: U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices, governors, Shockoe Hill Cemetery, where Chief Justice and mayors.
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