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The fate of Texas : the Civil War and the Lone Star State / edited by Charles D. Grear.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Civil War in the West.
- The Civil War in the West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society--Texas.
- War and society.
- Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Texas.
- Texas--History--1846-1950.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Charles D. Grear is assistant professor of history at Prairie View A & M University. Previously he taught history at Texas Christian University.</div>
- Contents:
- Texas, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate national strategy / Joseph G. Dawson
- Warriors, husbands, and fathers: Confederate soldiers and their families / Richard Lowe
- "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 / Charles D. Grear
- The price of liberty: the great hanging at Gainsville / Richard B. McCaslin
- The Civil War and the lives of Texas women / Angela Boswell
- Slaves taken to Texas for safekeeping during the Civil War / Dale Brown
- New perspectives on Texas Germans and the Confederacy / Walter B. Kamphoefner
- After the surrender: the postwar experiences of Confederate veterans in Harrison County, Texas / Randolph B. Campbell
- "I seemed to have no thought of the past, present, or future": Texans react to Confederate defeat / Carl H. Moneyhon
- Causes lost but not forgotten: George Washington Littlefield, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate memories at the University of Texas at Austin / Alexander Mendoza
- "Tell it like it was": Texas, the Civil War, and public history / Julie Holcomb.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-147-7
- OCLC:
- 769187837
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