Spartan Band Helen Beckett Julian Novitz

Julian Novitz

emphasizing working directly with prisoners and their communities

and solidarity

In our present system good teaching is often a subversive act - use this as a manual for guerilla warfare

Language--both words themselves and rhetorical tactics such as metaphor

Spartan Band Helen Beckett Julian NovitzIn `Spartan Band' (coined from a chaplain's eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organised in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually evolved into a tough, well trained unit during action at Lake Providence, Fort De Russy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry, as part of