Most histories of Civil War Texas--some starring the fabled Hood's Brigade, Terry's Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure--depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity...
Most histories of Civil War Texas--some starring the fabled Hood's Brigade, Terry's Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure--depict the Lo...
Most histories of Civil War Texas--some starring the fabled Hood's Brigade, Terry's Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure--depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity...
Most histories of Civil War Texas--some starring the fabled Hood's Brigade, Terry's Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure--depict th...