Original version: Austin : Texas State Historical Association, 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Beginnings -- Civil War Texas: a review of the historical literature / Walter F. Bell -- Memory, the Texas Revolution, and secession: the birth of Confederate nationalism in the Lone Star State / Andrew F. Lang -- Embarrassing situation?: David E. Twiggs and the surrender of United States forces in Texas, 1861 / Jeanne T. Heidler -- Home fronts -- A "very muddy and conflicting" view: the Civil War as seen from Austin, Texas / David C. Humphrey -- Slaves and rebels: the peculiar institution in Texas, 1861-1865 / James Marten -- Pendleton Murrah and states rights in Civil War Texas / John Moretta -- Gone from Texas and trading with the enemy: new perspectives on Civil War West Texas / Glen Sample Ely -- War fronts -- Texas coastal defense, 1861-1865 / Alwyn Barr -- A Texas Cavalry raid: reaction to black soldiers and contrabands / Anne J. Bailey -- To defend the sacred soil of Texas: Tom Green and the Texas Cavalry in the Red River campaign / Gary Joiner -- The soldiers -- Texans in the Union Army, 1861-1865 / Frank H. Smyrl -- The social and cultural dynamics of soldiering in Hood's Texas Brigade / Charles E. Brooks -- Fighting for the Confederacy: the white male population of Harrison County in the Civil War / Randolph B. Campbell -- Meanings of the war -- For our own best interests?: nineteenth-century Laredo Tejanos, military service, and the development of American nationalism / Alex Mendoza -- Sarah Devereux: a study in Southern femininity / Joleene Maddox Snider -- When Albert Sidney Johnston came home to Texas: Reconstruction politics and the reburial of a hero / Jerry Thompson.
Summary:
A collection of sixteen essays from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and other leading scholarly journals covering the Civil War and Texas from many angles, including military, political, social, and cultural aspects.
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