Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I A Historical Overview of Texas and the Civil War
Chapter 1 The Impact of New Studies about Texas and Texans on Civil War Historiography
Chapter 2 The Civil War and the Lone Star State: A Brief Overview
Part II The Time for Compromise Has Passed
Chapter 3 The Impending Crisis: A Texas Perspective on the Causes of the Civil War
Chapter 4 The Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas, 1858–1861: An Analysis of the First (Military) Degree Knights
Part III In Sight of My Enemy
Chapter 5 Frontier Defense: Enlistment Patterns for the Texas Frontier Regiments in the Civil War
Chapter 6 Reckoning at the River: Unionists and Secessionists on the Nueces, August 10, 1862
Chapter 7 Without a Fight: The Eighty-four-day Union Occupationof Galveston, Texas
Chapter 8 “Nothing but Disaster”: The Failure of Union Plans to Capture Texas
Chapter 9 Hide Your Daughters: The Yankees Have Arrived in the Coastal Bend, 1863
Chapter 10 Red and White Fighting the Blue: Relations between Texans and Confederate Indians
Chapter 11 Defending the Lone Star: The Texas Cavalry in the Red River Campaign
Chapter 12 Prison City, Camp Ford: Largest Confederate Prisoner-of-war Camp in the Trans-Mississippi
Part IV Political, Social, and Cultural Life during the War
Chapter 13 The Confederate Governors of Texas
Chapter 14 “A Sacred Charge upon Our Hands”: Assisting the Families of Confederate Soldiers in Texas, 1861–1865
Chapter 15 On the Edge of First Freedoms: Black Texans and the Civil War
Chapter 16 Feed the Troops or Fight the Drought: The Dilemma Texas Beef Contractors Faced in 1861–1865
Chapter 17 Distress, Discontent, and Dissent: Colorado County, Texas, during the Civil War
List of Contributors
Index
