The fate of Texas the Civil War and the Lone Star State /

The fate of Texas the Civil War and the Lone Star State / edited by Charles D. Grear. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (xxi, 272 pages) : illustrations, map. - The Civil War in the West .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Texas, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate national strategy / Warriors, husbands, and fathers: Confederate soldiers and their families / "If we should succeed in driving the enemy back out of my native state": why Texans fought East of the Mississippi River during the Civil War / The price of liberty: the great hanging at Gainsville / The Civil War and the lives of Texas women / Slaves taken to Texas for safekeeping during the Civil War / New perspectives on Texas Germans and the Confederacy / After the surrender: the postwar experiences of Confederate veterans in Harrison County, Texas / "I seemed to have no thought of the past, present, or future": Texans react to Confederate defeat / Causes lost but not forgotten: George Washington Littlefield, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate memories at the University of Texas at Austin / "Tell it like it was": Texas, the Civil War, and public history / Joseph G. Dawson -- Richard Lowe -- Charles D. Grear -- Richard B. McCaslin -- Angela Boswell -- Dale Brown -- Walter B. Kamphoefner -- Randolph B. Campbell -- Carl H. Moneyhon -- Alexander Mendoza -- Julie Holcomb.

Charles D. Grear is assistant professor of history at Prairie View A and M University. Previously he taught history at Texas Christian University.




9781610751476


War and society--Texas.
Texas--History--1846-1950.
Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
War and society--Texas.


Electronic Books.

E580 / .F384 2008