The Civil War
in Texas

 



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Approximately 90,000 men from Texas served in the Confederate Army and a few in the Union Army. Texans were involved in every major battle of the war in every state. Their bravery is legendary. Union forces failed to successfully occupy Texas despite invasion attempts from all directions. At Sabine Pass the Confederate Forces under the command of 25-year-old Lt. Dick Dowling were out numbered approximately 60 to 4,000. The Texas Confederates won using some of the most ingenious of tactics. Other legendary heroes emerge from Hood's Texas Brigade and Terry's Texas Rangers. The last battle of the war was fought on Texas soil at Palmito Ranch in the valley. The Confederates won, only to have to surrender to the Union when realizing the war had ended a month earlier with the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.

After the war, Texas remembered her heroes. They named many towns, counties, schools, and other institutions after them as evident when looking at a state map. Since Texas did not suffer lengthy occupation during the war, reconstruction was not as harsh as in other states. Many people from the east, hung a shingle from their home with the letters GTT, (Gone To Texas) painted on it and started a new life here. Together these veterans rebuilt the economy, and shaped the state to become what it is today--LEGENDARY.

NEW BOOKS:

  • How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels by Mrs. Irby Morgan
  • History of Halifax County (Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1918), by W. C. Allen
  • Sketches of Pitt County, 1704-1910 (Raleigh: Edwards, 1911), by Henry T. King
  • Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones
  • Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: Published by H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Francis Child
  • Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker 96 pgs.
  • Memoirs of W. W. Holden, by W. W. Holden. Post war Governor of North Carolina appointed during reconstruction. Later impeached.
  • Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio, by Henry E. Shepherd (NC 54th Infantry Regiment) 22pgs.
  • History of the Presbyterian Church in New Bern, N.C., With a Resume of Early Ecclesiastical Affairs in Eastern North Carolina, and a Sketch of the Early Days of New Bern, N.C. (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, 1886), by L. C. Vass
  • The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County, N. C. (1906), by Benjamin Brodie Winborne
  • Early History of Tarboro, North Carolina; also Collated Colonial Public Claims of Edgecombe County, and Easter Sunday in Savannah, Ga. (Richmond: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1908), by Gaston Lichtenstein
  • Early Social Life in Edgecombe; also Early History of Edgecombe, and a Tarborean's Experience Abroad (Richmond: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1904), by Gaston Lichtenstein
  • First Steps in North Carolina History (Raleigh, NC: A. Williams and Co., 1889), by Cornelia Phillips Spencer
  • History of Wayne County (1914), by Frank Arthur Daniels
  • In Ancient Albemarle (Raleigh: Commercial Printing Company, 1914), by Catherine Albertson
  • North Carolina History Stories (Richmond: B.F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1901), by W. C. Allen
  • Plantation Sketches (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1906), by Margaret Devereux
  • School History of North Carolina, From 1584 to the Present Time (revised and enlarged edition, c1882), by John W. Moore
  • Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers (New York: Robert Carter, 1846), by William Henry Foote
  • The Spirit Of The Roanoke: A Pageant of Halifax County History (Roanoke Rapids, NC: Herald Publishing Co., 1921)
Featured Books & CD-ROMS
Evans, Clement A.
Confederate Military History - Texas Volume
Paperback
$25.00
CD-ROM
$15.00
Rigdon, John C.
The Civil War in Texas
CD-ROM
$35.00
 

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