Echoes of glory : historic military sites across Texas /
In their previous book, Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, historians Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley chose to go beyond the familiar military sites of Texas-the Alamo or the San Jacinto battlefield, for example-to feature lesser known locations. The book su...
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| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Presidio de San Sabá: 1752-1772
- Fort Terán: 1831-1834
- Fort Anáhuac: 1831-1835
- Graves of American Revolution veterans in Texas: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- The river forts: 1848-1947
- Fort Ewell: 1852-1854
- Fort Mason: 1851-1869
- Fort Phantom Hill: 1851-1875
- United States San Antonio Arsenal: 1859-1976
- The "battle of Adams Hill": May 9, 1861
- Wartime cloth manufacturing, Texas penitentiary, Huntsville: 1861-1865
- Fort Magruder: 1863-1864
- Custer's march through Texas: 1865-1866
- Camp Meyers: 1880-1884
- Fort D.A. Russell: 1911-1945
- Penn Field: 1918
- Johnson's Ranch Airport: 1929-1943
- Arledge Field: 1941-1944
- Camp Barkeley: 1941-1945
- Big Spring Army Air Field: 1942-1946
- Pampa Army Air Field: 1942-1945
- Port Aransas and coastal defenses: 1942-1944
- Atlas ICBMs: 1961-1965
- Naval Air Station, Ingleside (homeport): 1985-2010
- Epilogue: the good with the bad.