The seventh star of the Confederacy : Texas during the Civil War /
On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a statewide referendum, paving the way for the state to secede and to officially become the seventh state in the Confederacy. Soon the Texans fo...
| Други автори: | Howell, Kenneth Wayne, 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Denton, Tex. :
University of North Texas Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
| Серия: |
War and the Southwest series ;
no. 10. |
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Seventh star of the Confederacy. |
Съдържание:
- pt. 1. A historical overview of Texas and the Civil War
- The impact of new studies about Texas and Texans on Civil War historiography / by Alwyn Barr
- The Civil War and the Lone Star State: a brief overview / by Archie McDonald
- pt. 2. The time for compromise has passed
- Explaining the causes of the Civil War: a Texas perspective / by James Smallwood
- The Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas, 1858-1861: an analysis of the First (Military) Degree Knights / by Linda Hudson
- pt. 3. In sight of my enemy
- Frontier defense: enlistment patterns for the Texas frontier regiments in the Civil War / by John W. Gorman
- Reckoning at the river: Unionists and Secessionists on the Nueces, August 10, 1862 / by Mary Jo O'Rear
- Without a fight: the eighty-four-day Union occupation of Galveston, Texas / by Donald Willett
- Nothing but disaster: the failure of Union plans to capture Texas / by Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
- Hide your daughters: the Yankees have arrived in the Coastal Bend, 1863 / by Charles D. Spurlin
- Red and White fighting the Blue: relations between Texans and Confederate Indians / by Charles D. Grear
- Defending the Lone Star: the Texas cavalry in the Red River campaign / by Gary D. Joiner
- Prison City, Camp Ford: largest Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in the Trans-Mississippi / by James Smallwood
- pt. 4. Political, social, and cultural life during the war
- The Confederate governors of Texas / by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.
- A sacred charge upon our hands: assisting the families of Confederate soldiers in Texas, 1861-1865 / by Vicki Betts
- On the edge of first freedoms: Black Texans and the Civil War / by Ronald E. Goodwin and Bruce A. Glasrud
- Feed the troops or fight the drought: the dilemma Texas beef contractors faced in 1861-1865 / by Carol Taylor
- Distress, discontent, and dissent: Colorado County, Texas, during the Civil War / by Bill Stein.