Lone star and double eagle
Subtitle: Civil War letters of a German-Texas family
By: Minetta Altgelt Goyne.
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press; Texas Christian Univ Pr
Published: 1982
Place of publication: [Fort Worth, Tex.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Coreth family.; German Americans -- Texas.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
Description: "[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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 253-266.
Includes index.