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Texas occupation. Under the Anaconda Plan, the Union Navy blockaded the principal seaport, Galveston and the entire Gulf and Southern borders, for four years, and federal troops occupied the city for three months in late 1862. Confederate troops under Gen. John B. Magruder recaptured the city on January 1, 1863, and it remained in Confederate ...
I'm Mark Coombs, resident Texan of the Civil War Trust. In February, 1861, Texas legislators voted overwhelmingly to leave the Union, 166 to 7. It was the most lopsided vote for secession in any state in the lower South, with the sole exception of South Carolina. Still, pro-union sentiment in this state was strong.
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Handbook of Civil War Texas. At 4:30 on the morning of April 12, 1861—one hundred and fifty years ago this spring (2011)—Confederate States of America artillery opened fire on United States troops in Fort Sumter, South Carolina, beginning the American Civil War. Texans, who had voted overwhelmingly in February 1861 to secede from the Union ...
Texas in the Cold War. Tensions were high when the Civil War began, and Texans responded in impressive numbers. By the end of 1861, more than 25,000 had joined the Confederate army. During the course of the war, nearly 90,000 Texans served in the military. The National Park Service estimates that by war's end more than 20,000 Hispanics fought ...
Jul 27, 2023 · Vera Lea Dugas, A Social and Economic History of Texas in the Civil War and Reconstruction Periods (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1963). Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Robert Pattison Felgar, Texas in the War ...
The Civil War was a major turning point in American history. Our growing nation was deeply divided, and the resulting battles are legendary. The end of slavery and the beginning of Reconstruction marked a new era for the nation. Texas played an important role in the war, and many historic sites, museums, monuments and cemeteries tell the stories.
A Sesquicentennial Timeline. 1861 1862 1863. 2011-2015 marks the 150 th anniversary of the American Civil War. Texas was among those states voting to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy in 1861. Throughout the commemoration of this cataclysm that shaped a nation, the Texas State Library and Archives will be showcasing iconic ...
