Lone star and double eagle : Civil War letters of a German-Texas family /

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Author / Creator:Goyne, Minetta Altgelt, 1924-
Imprint:[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University Press, ©1982.
Description:1 online resource (iv, 276 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11112399
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ISBN:0585345430
9780585345437
0912646683
9780912646688
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index.
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Summary:"[This book] concentrates upon a strongly bonded family during a period of separation that is necessarily preserved in much greater detail than their happier moments spent in one another's company. Being based to a large extent on letters that surely were never intended for the eyes of anyone outside the family and an intimate circle of friends, it also gives a more spontaneous view than most journals offer. These letters, preserved for more than eleven decades, are the record of years during which the Ernst Coreth family began really to enter into the affairs of its new homeland. No wish to magnify the importance of these people, no intent to dramatize their fate motivated the accompanying study, for much of what the Coreths experienced other immigrants experienced also"--Preface
Other form:Print version: Goyne, Minetta Altgelt, 1924- Lone star and double eagle. [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University Press, ©1982 0912646683
Table of Contents:
  • From Tyrol to Texas
  • The "Woolentier"
  • Ebb and flow
  • Roll call
  • Grains of sand
  • Drops of water
  • The ponds and the pines
  • Battles and bayous
  • The slough of despond
  • Dixitur
  • Spears into pruning hooks
  • Swords into plowshares.