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Gideon Lincecum's Sword - Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front (Hardcover)
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Gideon Lincecum's Sword - Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front (Hardcover)
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The effects of the Civil War on civilian life in Texas are
powerfully conveyed in the correspondence of Dr. Gideon Lincecum
(1793-1874), a natural scientist and philosopher who moved to Texas
in 1848 with his family of ten children and settled in Washington
County. Having retired from an extensive and lucrative botanical
medical practice in Mississippi, Gideon devoted much of his time in
Texas before the war to studying the natural sciences and carrying
on an extensive correspondence that included Northern scientists
and even Charles Darwin. He used a letterpress to make copies of
almost all of his letters, and these letterpress volumes, totaling
more than a thousand pages, were preserved by one of his daughters.
Gideon's letters provide a rich and detailed account of how one
individual and his large extended family, all of whom were strongly
committed to the Confederacy, kept up with the progress of the
conflict and coped with the multitude of problems it created.
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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