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Wooster, Robert was born on August 27, 1956 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Ralph Ancil and Edna Lee (Jones) Wooster.
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A guide to the best books on the Civil War offers entertaining, enlightening, and often contentious essays on a wide range of excellent studies on the subject.
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The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isolation. Located astride communication lines linking San Antonio, El Paso, Presidio, and Chihuahua City, the United States Army’s post at Fort Davis commanded a strategic position at a military, cultural, and economic crossroads of nineteenth-century Texas. Using extensive research and careful scrutiny of long forgotten records, Robert Wooster brings his readers into the world of Fort Davis, a place of encounter, conquest, and community. The fort here spawned a thriving civilian settlement and served as the economic nexus for regional development Frontier Crossroads schools its readers in the daily lives of soldiers, their dependents, and civilians at the fort and in the surrounding area. The resulting history of the intriguing blend of Hispanic, African American, Anglo, and European immigrants who came to Fort Davis is a benchmark volume that will serve as the standard to which other post histories will be compared. The military garrisons of Fort Davis represented a rich mosaic of nineteenth-century American life. Each of the army’s four black regiments served there following the Civil War, and its garrisons engaged in many of the army’s grueling campaigns against Apache and Comanche Indians. Characters such as artist and officer Arthur T. Lee, William “Pecos Bill” Shafter, and Benjamin Grierson and his family come alive under Wooster’s pen. Frontier Crossroads will enrich its readers with its careful analysis of life on the frontier. This book will appeal to military and social historians, Texas history buffs, and those seeking a record of adventure.
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( This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one o...)
This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texas—the far western reaches off the state. Wooster traces the history of this Davis Mountains region from the days when Indians and later Spaniards and Mexicans inhabited the area, through its days as the site of Texan and American interests. The establishment and construction of Fort Davis in the mid-1850s tells the story of one of the army's largest western posts. We learn about the famous army camels which Secretary of War Jefferson Davis brought to the area, with Fort Davis serving as a base of operations, and about the difficult conditions imposed on the army by weather, climate, and Indians, Evacuated by the U.S. Army at the beginning of the Civil War, Fort Davis later was occupied by Texas state troops, then briefly reoccupied by the Federals. After the war, the War Department began shifting regular army units back to the western frontiers. Among these units were each of the famous black regiments, many of them composed of former slaves who proved to be excellent soldiers. The details of daily life—food, clothing, social activities, weapons, medical care—are thoroughly discussed, as are the often ineffective campaigns against Indians. Robert Wooster skillfully uses the forty-year history of Fort Davis to provide a clear window into the frontier military experience and into nineteenth-century American society. Because of its black soldiers, and its large Mexican-American civilian community, Fort Davis is a prime resource for studying and understanding the stratified racial relations which accompanied the army's and the nation's westward expansion.
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At the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, four times as many American men died as died during the Normandy landings in World War II. Numbers such as these make the impact of the American Civil War almost incomprehensible. By focusing on people rather than numbers, The Civil War 100 gives the war a human face. Each selected individual is the subject of a brief biography, a discussion of his or her relevance, and a photograph or two. The author, Robert Wooster, admits to having no clear system for ranking his choices. Influence was deemed more relevant than skill; a military failure might therefore rank above a successful general. Indeed, only half of those selected were directly involved in the war effort. The list includes many people who influenced society in the antebellum and reconstruction periods. Both heroes and villains are featured: Abraham Lincoln understandably gets the top spot, but readers may be surprised to find John Wilkes Booth at number 25. This book is clearly not designed as an entry-level text. Readers with some knowledge of the Civil War will find it much more rewarding. That said, Wooster does include a helpful introduction with general background, a detailed chronology, and battle maps. True buffs may argue with Wooster's rankings-- indeed, that may be half the fun--but The Civil War 100 is a real treat for anyone who knows his blues from his grays. --C.B. Delaney
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Based on a wide range of sources, including materials only recently made available to researchers, this first complete, carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army.
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Wooster, Robert was born on August 27, 1956 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Ralph Ancil and Edna Lee (Jones) Wooster.
Bachelor, Lamar University, 1977. Master of Arts, Lamar University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1985.
Scholar in residence, Texas State History Association, Liberty, 1985-1986; assistant professor, Corpus Christi (Texas) State University, 1986-1990; associate professor, Corpus Christi (Texas) State University, 1990-1995; professor, Corpus Christi (Texas) State University, since 1995; department chairman humanities, Corpus Christi (Texas) State University, since 1997.
( Based on a wide range of sources, including materials o...)
( Texas’ frontiers in the 1840s were buffeted by disputes...)
( The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenaci...)
(A guide to the best books on the Civil War offers enterta...)
(At the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, four times...)
( This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one o...)
('A model of analytical history. In...spare, cogent prose,...)
Deputy director United States Military Academy/Reserve Officers Training Corps fellowship United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1990. Fellow Texas State History Association (president 2005-2006). Member Organization American Historians.
Married Catherine Cox, 1992.