ABOUT THIS BOOK

In its examination of a state too often neglected by Civil War historians, The Fate of Texas presents Texas as a decidedly Southern, yet in many ways unusual, state seriously committed to and deeply affected by the Confederate war effort in a multitude of ways. When the state joined the Confederacy and fought in the war, its fate was uncertain. The war touched every portion of the population and all aspects of life in Texas. Never before has a group of historians examined the impact of the war on so many facets of the state.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Charles D. Grear is assistant professor of history at Prairie View A & M University. Previously he taught history at Texas Christian University.

REVIEWS

“Meticulously researched, artfully written, and historiographically exciting, this book will set a new standard for historical literature dealing with Texas and the Civil War.”
—Choice

“Texans dealt with many of the same stresses endured in other parts of the South, but they also encountered unique challenges associated with their frontier location. Grear has put together a volume that reveals both of these aspects of the Texas experience. The contributors highlight both the distinctively Southern and the uniquely Texan experience of the Civil War and its aftermath in the state, and they ask questions and make conclusions that are sure to provoke future research into the way Texans both affected and were affected by the war.”
—H-Net

“A satisfying mix of essays . . . all models of coherent argument and deep research [offering] a suggestion of how historians could, and should, integrate the history of Texas more thoroughly into the history of the Civil War.”
—Military History of the West

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Illustrations and Maps	000
Series Editors' Preface	000
Acknowledgments	000
Introduction	000
1. Texas, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate National Strategy
	Joseph G. Dawson	000
2. Warriors, Husbands, and Fathers: Confederate Soldiers and Their Families
	Richard Lowe	000
3. "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	000
4. The Price of Liberty: The Great Hanging at Gainesville
	Richard B. McCaslin	000
5. The Civil War and the Lives of Texas Women
	Angela Boswell	000
6. Slaves Taken to Texas for Safekeeping during the Civil War
	Dale Baum	177
7. New Perspectives on Texas Germans and the Confederacy
	Walter D. Kamphoefner	000
8. After the Surrender: The Postwar Experiences of Confederate Veterans in Harrison 
County, Texas
	Randolph B. Campbell	000
9. "I Seemed to Have No Thought of the Past, Present, or Future": Texans React to 
Confederate Defeat
	Carl H. Moneyhon	000
10. Causes Lost but Not Forgotten: George Washington Littlefield, Jefferson Davis, and 
Confederate Memories at the University of Texas at Austin
	Alexander Mendoza	000
11. "Tell It Like It Was": Texas, the Civil War, and Public History
	Julie Holcomb	000
Notes	000
Selected Bibliography	000
Contributors	000
Index	000

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