The complete narrative of the expedition.

"Thorough historic account of the Union forces' massive overland invasion of southwestern Louisiana beginning in the fall of 1863, on their route to claim Texas

"Acadiana" summons up visions of a legendary and exotic world of moss-draped cypress, cocoa-colored bayous, subtropical wildlife, and spicy indigenous cuisine.

William Taylor Stott was a native Hoosier and an 1861 graduate of Franklin College, who later became the president who took the college from virtual bankruptcy

"This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.