Author: Richard Mather Ahlstrom
RICHARD MATHER AHLSTROM has lived in Texas since 1979. He graduated with an AB degree from Harvard University and completed the Executive Program of Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is retired from Diamond Shamrock Corporation, where he was a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He has previously written a book on prehistoric American Indian pipes. Long interested in the Civil War and Texas soldiers, Ahlstrom has amassed a personal collection of Texas Civil War artifacts.
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Works Published by UNT Press
Texas Civil War Artifacts: A Photographic Guide to the Physical Culture of Texas Civil War Soldiers
Published: November, 2008 Pages: 560 Features: 610 b&w illus. App. Notes. Bib. Index.
One of the most popular literary subjects worldwide is the American Civil War. In addition to an enormous number of history buffs, there are tens of thousands of collectors of Civil War artifacts. In the last fifty years, several books have been written concerning the equipment associated with soldiers of specific Confederate states, but no book until now has ever chronicled the military equipment used by Texas soldiers. Texas Civil War Artifacts is the first comprehensive guide to the physical culture of Texas Civil War soldiers. more... about Texas Civil War Artifacts: A Photographic Guide to the Physical Culture of Texas Civil War Soldiers
- The Texas Sons of the Confederacy Award for Best Texas Related Civil War Book, 2008