The seventh star of the Confederacy : Texas during the Civil War /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | War and the Southwest series ;
no. 10. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. 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 P. McDonald
- Pt. II. The time for compromise has passed
- The impending crisis: a Texas perspective on the causes of the Civil War / by James M. Smallwood
- The Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas, 1858-1861: an analysis of the First (Military) Degree Knights / by Linda S. Hudson
- Pt. III. 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 M. Smallwood
- Pt. IV. 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.