Gideon Lincecum's Sword
Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front
978-1-57441-125-6 Cloth
6 x 9 x 0 in
392 pp. 1 photo. 5 illus.
Pub Date: 01/01/2001
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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.”
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