Helen Dupuy; a French-speaking teenager living at the Sleepy Hollow Plantation on Bayou Lafourche; Louisiana; noted with horror the coming invaders. “ The first Yankee gunboats passed Donaldsville May 4 at 11 A.M.;†she wrote in her diary. Her home lay just a few miles from the Mississippi River; and word quickly arrived that Union sailors were confiscating sugar; cotton; and other contraband of war. The realities of her new situation soon became apparent—and ominous: “Then began the most awful pillaging.†Award-winning author Donald S. Frazier returns to the field of Civil War history with keen turn of phrase and enthralling story-telling with the release of Fire in the Cane Field: The Invasion of Louisiana and Texas; January 1861–January 1863. Beginning with the spasms of secession in the Pelican State; Frazier weaves a stirring tale of bravado; reaction; and war as he describes the consequences of disunion for the hapless citizens of Louisiana. The army and navy campaigns he portrays weave a tale of the Federal Government’s determination to suppress the newborn Confederacy—and nearly succeeding—by putting ever-increasing pressure on its adherents from New Orleans to Galveston. The surprising triumph of Texas troops on their home soil in early 1863 proved to be a decisive reverse to Union ambitions and doomed the region to even bloodier destruction to come. This bracing new work; ten years in the making; will usher in a chronological string of four books on the Civil War in Louisiana and Texas; as Frazier presents fresh sources on new topics in a series of captivating narratives. Titles to follow in his innovative Louisiana quadrille include Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi; February–May 1863; Blood on the Bayou: The Campaigns of Tom Green’s Texans; June 1863–February 1864; and Death at the Landing: The Contest for the Red River and the Collapse of Confederate Louisiana; March 1864–June 1865.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Book to be Read and RereadBy Boston Legal addictI consider myself to be a student of the holocaust. As such; I have read many books and look at documentaries/movies and yet with every piece of media about the subject I learn new information; new sets of experiences about this horrible time in history. This book stands out among all the rest. I won't go into detail - it needs to be read the others have detailed the experiences of this girl; and her parents (to a lesser extent) but I came away from this book understanding huge conclusions....That you didn't need to be in a concentration camp during the war to have your life ruined; to have your family torn apart; and the most monstrous of all - that while there were 6 million Jews kills; 11 million overall; each of those people would have many stories to tell and; as this book clearly illustrates and raises the question as to how many who WERE NOT in concentration camps and survived are out there to tell their numerous stories?The possible numbers are mindboggling...so to be a student of the holocaust is to take on a life-long education process of which I'm at the very beginning. But as the author I'm sure would agree; we must not forget.....0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy SMKBeautifully bound book.11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. A stunning; yet subtle; combination of images and wordsBy A CustomerPeople of my generation or younger; born after the mid nineteen-sixties; are caught in a strange place when it comes to learning about; and relating to; the events in World War II Europe. We come too late for direct experience; yet before the greater distance of the generation following us. In a sense; we will; if we are thinking people; shoulder the task of passing on the facts; impressions; and enormous lessons from this period; but without first-hand knowledge. "Rescued Images" is a remarkable book which should do much to provide us with a tool which is both entertaining (as extraordinary as that may seem) and profoundly moving. Jacobsens gentle; yet strong voice; is made even stronger by her montages; which are simultaneously beautiful as they are emotionally raw. When she is old enough I will sit with my daughter and we will read this book together; in honor of the triumph of the human spirit; and in memory of the worst of human failings. Parents and schools should add this volume to their shelves; it will remain timeless.
