Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 976.405 EAN: 9780876111710 ISBN: 0876111711 Label: Texas State Historical Association Manufacturer: Texas State Historical Association Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 82 Publication Date: 1999-05 Publisher: Texas State Historical Association Sales Rank: 1199383 Studio: Texas State Historical Association
Product DescriptionCivil War Texas provides an authoritative, comprehensive description of Texas during the Civil War as well as a guide for those who wish to visit sites in Texas associated with the war. In one compact volume, the reader or tourist is led on an exciting historical journey through Civil War Texas. More than 70,000 Texans served in the Confederate Army during the war, and Texans fought in almost every major battle. Ordnance works, shops, and depots were established in Texas for the manufacture and repair of weapons of war, and Texas cotton shipped through Mexico was exchanged for weapons and ammunition. In this carefully researched work, Ralph A. Wooster describes Texas's role in the war. He also notes the location of historical markers, statues, monuments, battle sites, buildings, and museums in Texas that may be visited by those interested in learning more about the war. Photographs, maps, chronology, endnotes, and bibliography provide additional information on Civil War Texas.
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Rating: - Nice synopsis
This book is not overly ambitious but is nevertheless a good overview of a very hard period of Texas history. It should be used primarily as a synopsis leading to more detailed study of important events.
Even though the book is almost an outline, I still learned things I hadn't heard before. I didn't realize, for example, that most Texas men of military men joined the Confederate military. I don't doubt the accuracy of this but believe, from a patriotism perspective, that this is ... Read More
Rating: - An ash from the embers of another time.
This publication is about halfway in size between a pamphlet and a small book, having a total of 84 pages, of which 18 are index, notes, and identification of the author. However, even though it is quite small, it succinctly lays out the high points of the involvement of the people of Texas in the War Between the States. Pleasingly enough, it touches upon the high points of the period such as the Battle of Sabine Pass and the low, such as the murder of Union sympathizers near Fredricksburg ... Read More
- Nice synopsis
- An ash from the embers of another time.
