Texas divided : loyalty and dissent in the lone star state, 1856-1874 /

Marten, James Alan.

Texas divided : loyalty and dissent in the lone star state, 1856-1874 / James Marten. - Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (257 pages)

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: drawing the line -- Southern vigilantism and the sectional conflict -- Antebellum dissenters in Texas -- Confederate unionists and the war -- Unionists as dissenters -- Speculators, deserters, and bandits -- Ethnic Texans and the war -- Loyalty and Reconstruction, 1865-1874 -- Black Texans during Reconstruction -- Epilogue: nothing to regret but failure.

Texas, unlike other states of the Confederacy, was virtually untouched by the military campaigns of the Civil War. Moreover, it was home to two considerable ethnic groups Germans and Hispanics who had no traditional ties with the southern way of life. In this book James Marten offers the first general exploration of the shifting relationships among the contending political and ethinic factions in Texas during the sectional crisis of the mid-nineteenth centry.



9780813148038


Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Texas.
Dissenters--History--Texas--19th century.
Sectionalism (U.S.)


Electronic Books.

E532 / .T493 2009