Download or read book Texas in the War for Southern Independence 1861 1865 written by Robert Pattison Felgar and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Texas was in a unique position in the Confederacy. Unlike her sister states, she was contiguous to foreign territory. Much of her vast area was devoid of human habitation while most of the remainder was sparcely settled. Three-fourths of her people were recent immigrants, and she had a larger foreign element than any other confederate state. She was partly southern and partly western. The interests of the large planters along the lower courses of the rivers were quite like those of the planters in other states of the South. The settlers who resided along the western frontier were imbued with the ideas which generally prevailed in frontier communities; but, being mainly of southern stock, and believing in state rights, they joined their fellow Texans of the more populous areas in upholding a principle and in making common cause against aggression. On the other hand, individualism, so prevalent in frontier peoples, frequently marred the best efforts of the military authorities. Texas was practically free from invasion, hence her economic life could continue uninterrupted throughout the war, being affected mainly by a scarcity of workers because of the absence of men in the army. She was fortunate, too, in being able to have access to foreign markets through the port of Matamoras, Mexico. In the mobilization of the military strength of Texas the officials were inclined, to put undue stress on local defense to the injury of the cause of the entire confederacy. The protection of his home and neighborhood was frequently of greater concern to the frontiersman than service in the confederacy in another part of the country. Disloyalty and desertion weakened the military strength perceptibly. The efficiency of the military forces was lowered because so many Texans preferred service in the cavalry when most of them were needed for the infantry; and their effectiveness was impaired because at times there were not enough arms of any kind to supply those enrolled for service. Men suffered from the lack of proper shelter while in camp, and at times because of poor shoes and clothing. Food was often limited and of poor quality. Hospitals were never adequately supplied with medicines, bandages, and other necessary appliances. On the whole, however, the soldiers in Texas and Texans in other parts of the Trans-Mississippi Department fared better than did the men in the armies east of the river. Primarily an agricultural region, Texans made the most of the situation by spinning and weaving in the homes and by establishing small factories. The Military Board rendered a valuable service in securing from abroad cotton and wool cards which were so necessary for preparing cotton and wool for spinning. Because of the opportunity denied other confederate states of marketing cotton, Texas cotton growers opposed a restriction of the acreage despite the exhortations of editors to raise more foodstuffs and less cotton. A rather bitter feeling prevailed, not without justification, that the poor man was bearing more than his share of the burden of the war while the large planters and speculators were making profits at his expense, scarcity of specie and depreciation of paper money made trade conditions unstable. Both the Texas and Confederate governments failed to set up the machinery which would finance the war. While the unionist element was rather strong throughout the war, it was never powerful enough to venture into politics. Although there were some "slackers" in all parts of the state, the great majority of the people were willing to make sacrifices for the cause, and the men cheerfully offered themselves on the field of battle. But when the news reached them of the surrender of the two largest confederate armies, commanded by such esteemed leaders as Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, no oratory or other arguments or devices could prevail upon them to continue the fight. The small forces fell to pieces and the men straggled homeward to their families where they were soon confronted with the reconstruction regime"--Leaves 514-517

Download or read book War and Reconstruction Times in Texas written by Augusta M. Loughery and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Civil War in Texas written by Johanna Burke and published by Powerkids Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the 1861 vote that led to Texas joining the Confederacy, lesser known battles in New Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, and the "Juneteenth" declaration that officially ended slavery in Texas.

Download or read book Texas in the War 1861 1865 written by Marcus Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas in the War 1861 1865 written by Marcus Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete history of Texas in the Civil War to appear since 1900.

Download or read book A History of the United States The war for southern independence written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas in the War 1861 1865 written by M.A. Dozier g. Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hood s Texas Brigade written by Susannah J. Ural and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most effective units to fight on either side of the Civil War, the Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia served under Robert E. Lee from the Seven Days Battles in 1862 to the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. In Hood’s Texas Brigade, Susannah J. Ural presents a nontraditional unit history that traces the experiences of these soldiers and their families to gauge the war’s effect on them and to understand their role in the white South’s struggle for independence. According to Ural, several factors contributed to the Texas Brigade’s extraordinary success: the unit’s strong self-identity as Confederates; the mutual respect among the junior officers and their men; a constant desire to maintain their reputation not just as Texans but as the top soldiers in Robert E. Lee’s army; and the fact that their families matched the men’s determination to fight and win. Using the letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper accounts, official reports, and military records of nearly 600 brigade members, Ural argues that the average Texas Brigade volunteer possessed an unusually strong devotion to southern independence: whereas most Texans and Arkansans fought in the West or Trans- Mississippi West, members of the Texas Brigade volunteered for a unit that moved them over a thousand miles from home, believing that they would exert the greatest influence on the war’s outcome by fighting near the Confederate capital in Richmond. These volunteers also took pride in their place in, or connections to, the slave-holding class that they hoped would secure their financial futures. While Confederate ranks declined from desertion and fractured morale in the last years of the war, this belief in a better life—albeit one built through slave labor— kept the Texas Brigade more intact than other units. Hood’s Texas Brigade challenges key historical arguments about soldier motivation, volunteerism and desertion, home-front morale, and veterans’ postwar adjustment. It provides an intimate picture of one of the war’s most effective brigades and sheds new light on the rationales that kept Confederate soldiers fighting throughout the most deadly conflict in U.S. history.

Download or read book Confederate Texas a Political Study written by Billy D. Ledbetter and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No adequate history of the activities of the Texas state government during the Civil War has been written. Instead this phase of state history has been treated only in a limited manner in general state and Civil War histories. A history of the state government's functions and role during this period is essential to understanding Texas' development as a state and its place in the Confederacy. This work is an attempt to provide such a history. A study of the internal political affairs of Texas during the war years, this work begins with the movement toward secession and ends with the collapse of the state government and the establishment of military rule in Texas. Emphasis has been placed on revealing how the state government attempted to cope with the numerous problems which the war engendered and the futility of these attempts."--P. iii.

Download or read book The Confederate States of America 1861 1865 written by E. Merton Coulter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1950-06-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the trade edition of Volume VII of A History of the South, a ten-volume series designed to present a thoroughly balanced history of all the complex aspects of the South's culture from 1607 to the present. Like its companion volumes, The Confederate States of America is written by an outstanding student of Southern history, E. Merton Coulter, who is also one of the editors of the series and the author of Volume VIII.The drama of war has led most historians to deal with the years 1861 to 1865 in terms of campaigns and generals. In this volume, however, Mr. Coulter treats the war in its perspective as an aspect of the life of a people.The attempt to build a nation strong enough to win independence naturally drew Southerners' attention to such problems as morale, money, bonds, taxes, diplomacy, manufacturing, transportation, communication, publishing, armaments, religion, labor, prices, profits, race problems, and political policy. Mr. Coulter balances these phases of the struggle in their relation to war itself, and the whole is dealt with as a period in the history of a people.And finally, Mr. Coulter deals with the ever-recurring questions: Did secession necessarily mean war? Was the South from the very beginning engaged in a hopeless struggle? And, if not, why did it lose?

Download or read book Civil War Days in Young County Texas 1861 1865 written by Barbara A. Neal Ledbetter and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The War for Southern Independence written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas in Gray written by Frank H. Smyrl and published by Amer Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fighting for Southern Independence written by Michael Dan Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a regiment of Southern patriots fighting in defense of their homes and families in the War for Southern Independence. Most of them were ordinary East Texas farmers who performed great feats of physical endurance, fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the war and became one of the premier fighting regiments of the legendary Walker's Texas Division of the Confederate Army. These Texans helped turn back major Federal Army invasions in Louisiana at the Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, the Battle of Mansfield, the Battle of Pleasant Hill and the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, thus saving their home state of Texas from the kind of death and destruction visited on so many other Southern states.

Download or read book A Blockaded State written by John Phillip Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War and Reconstruction Times in Texas written by Mrs. E. M. Loughery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Reconstruction Times in Texas: 1861-1865 The first edition of War and Reconstruction Times in Texas having been so favorably received, I publish this sec ond edition in loving honor of dear mother's memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The War to Prevent Southern Independence 1861 65 written by George E Parris and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third of my series of books analyzing the history of the American South and its relationship to the rest of the country. In time sequence, I have published a three-volume set of books entitled Antebellum (1492-1860) and Sumter (1860-61). This book I believe is correctly entitled The War to Prevent Southern Independence because that is what it was. I reject the name "Civil War" because it was not neighbor against neighbor; and I reject "War between the States" because this title implies that both parties share equally in the movement to war. In fact, the Confederacy never wanted war and would have ended it at almost any point had the Union (federal government headed by Abraham Lincoln) agreed to peace. For those of you so ignorant as to say "what about Ft. Sumter?" Please read Sumter. Or at lease look up the date of Sumter and the dates of exiting the union of the Confederate states. You will find that at the time of the exchange of cannonade at Fort Sumter (in which no one on either side was killed or seriously wounded), Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas were still in the Union. Given that most of the war was fought in these States and that these States provide a disproportionate number of men and materials to the War effort for the Confederacy, it is apparent that the War (i) did not depend on the cotton trade and would have quickly ended have these States be devoted to the Union cause. I also encourage you to read the documents in which Virginia, New York and Rhode Island accepted the US Constitution (1787). One of my major conclusions from this study, has been that Abraham Lincoln (who was self-educated and the first US president born and raised west of the Allegany Mountains) was actually completely ignorant of key American history and Constitutional law. In his ignorance (typical of mid-westerners and recent immigrants to the US) he truly believed that the US was a "Sovereign Nation" and the States were little more than administrative districts. That, of course, turns history (well-understood and beloved in the South) on its head. I have gone into great detail on the reasons for the War [(i)unfair taxation of the South, (ii) imbalance in federal expenditure to support northern interests, (iii) continuing violent threats and harassment by abolitionists, and (iv) a growing imbalance in political power as new European immigrants entered through entered through northern ports and were indoctrinated in the North] in Antebellum. This book, focuses on the impact of the War on the South and how northern propaganda before, during, and after the War have been used and are now being used to tarnish the South. I have not yet analyzed the period 1865-1965, which I hope to do. My working hypothesis is that as a result of the War (not an inherent Southern tradition) white southerners lashed out at freed blacks who became manifestations of Northern Imperialism. By the end of the War, the abolitionists had had made "slavery" the official cause of the War and as a result, it was easy for white southerners to view blacks as the cause of their misfortune. Thus, there are reasons to chastise the South, but the fault lies with Lincoln, Seward and the northern abolitionists, not the southerners prior to 1865.