One of the most popular literary subjects worldwide is the American Civil War. In addition to an enormous number of history buffs, there are tens of thousands of collectors of Civil War artifacts. In the last fifty years, several books have been written concerning the equipment associated with soldiers of specific Confederate states, but no book until now has ever chronicled the military equipment used by Texas soldiers. "Texas Civil War Artifacts" is the first comprehensive guide to the physical culture of Texas Civil War soldiers.
Texas military equipment differs in a number of ways...