Brazos River Texas From Old Washington To Waco Letter From The Secretary Of War Transmitting With A Letter From The Chief Of Engineers Report Of Examination Of Brazos River Texas From Old Washington To Waco April 18 1906 Referred To The Committee On Rivers And Harbors And Ordered To Be Printed With Accompanying Illustrations

Author : James Marten
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813148030
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Texas Divided written by James Marten and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war did not destroy Texas's farms or plantations or her few miles of railroads. Although unchallenged from without, Confederate Texans faced challenges from within—from fellow Texans who opposed their cause. Dissension sprang from a multitude of seeds. It emerged from prewar political and ethnic differences; it surfaced after wartime hardships and potential danger wore down the resistance of less-than-enthusiastic rebels; it flourished, as some reaped huge profits from the bizarre war economy of Texas. Texas Divided is neither the history of the Civil War in Texas, nor of secession or Reconstruction. Rather, it is the history of men dealing with the sometimes fragmented southern society in which they lived—some fighting to change it, others to preserve it—and an examination of the lines that divided Texas and Texans during the sectional conflict of the nineteenth century.