RARE CIVIL WAR DIARY 1864 and 1865 BAttlefield Account

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Rare Book, almost impossible to find. This Book was converted to CD to Share the Civil War Account of the South. A Joint project of many hours. Very well done, It was done for the Historical Society and is truly a Labor of love. CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS BY CONFEDERATE POSTMASTER GEN. This is an Excellent Book on CD, It is the MEMOIRS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR JOHN H. REAGAN, LL. D Postmaster‑ General of the Confederacy; Sometime United States Senator; Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas; President of the Texas State Historical Association Cause of the Confederate States of America DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the cause of the late Confederate States Four months at Fort Houston Civil War , South , General Houston , Cherokees, Kickapoos, Shawnees and Delawares , Texas enemy's sharpshooters , Sniper , battle of the Wilderness, General Grant THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1864 AND 1865 , This is an excellent First hand account of Pre civil War Events and His own entry into the Civil War Events a prespective from the Bottom to the top. The ideas behind the thinking to justify the War and why the south was so steadfact to fight For the true values of the south. An excellent read. 350 Pages w/ Index and list at the end of All men listed and places. Manual CD (Remember this is a CD, You must be satisfied with its operation, no complaints yet. Copyright Reserved and CD Coded for Tracing . This is a CD and comes w/ Adobe Reader. Great CD with Thumbnails and easy to Print from. Good Luck
John Henninger Reagan (October 8, 1818 – March 6, 1905), was a leading 19th century American politician from the U.S.
state of
Texas
. A Democrat, Reagan left the
U.S.
House of Representatives when his state seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States of
America
. During the American Civil War he served in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis as Postmaster Generl. After the Confederate defeat, he called for cooperation with the federal government and became unpopular, but returned to public office when his predictions of harsh treatment for resistance were proved correct.
Reagan was born in Sevier County
,
Tennessee
, to Timothy Richard and Elizabeth Lusk Reagan. (Some sources say he was born in the county seat, Sevierville.) He left
Tennessee
at nineteen and like many from
Tennessee
traveled in
Texas
. There he worked as a surveyor from 1839 to 1843, and afterward was a farmer in
Kaufman
County
until 1851. He studied law on his own and was licensed to practice law in 1846, opening an office in
Buffalo
.
The same year he obtained his license, he was elected a probate judge in Henderson
County
and in 1847 he went to the state legislature but was defeated for a second term in 1849. He returned to his law practice and was elected a district judge in
Palestine
, serving from 1852 to 1857. His labors in defeating the American Party (Know-Nothings) in
Texas
led to his election to Congress in 1857 from
Texas
's First District.
In Congress, he was a moderate and a supporter of the Union, but resigned from Congress on January 15, 1861 and returned to his home state when it became clear that Texas
would secede. There he participated in the secession convention that met at
Austin
on the last day of January. The convention voted for
Texas
to leave the union and for Reagan to represent the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress, but within the month he was in the cabinet instead.
President Jefferson Davis named him to head the new Confederate States of America Post-office Department and he accepted. Reagan was an able administrator, presiding over the only cabinet department that functioned well during the war. Despite the hostilities of the Civil War, the United States Post Office Department continued operations in the Confederacy until June 1, 1861, whereupon the new Confederate service assumed its functions. Reagan's masterstroke in establishing his department was sending an agent to., with letters asking the heads of the United States Post Office Department's various bureaus to come work for him. Nearly all did so, bringing copies of their records, contracts, account books, etc. "Reagan in effect had stolen the U.S. Post Office," historian William C. Davis wrote. When President Davis asked his cabinet for the status of their departments, Reagan reported he had his up and running in only six weeks. Davis
was amazed.
Reagan cut expenses by eliminating costly and little-used routes and forcing the railroads that carried the mail to reduce their rates. Despite the problems the war caused, his department managed to turn a profit, "the only post office department in American history to pay its own way" wrote William C. Davis. Reagan was the only member of the cabinet to oppose Robert . Lee's offensive into Pennsylvania
in June-July 1863. He instead supported a proposal to detach the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia to reinforce Joseph E. Johnston in
Mississippi
so that he could break the Siege of Vicksburg. Historian Shelby Foote noted that, as the only cabinet member from west of the
Mississippi
, Reagan was acutely sensitive to the consequences of
Vicksburg
's capture.