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Texan in Blue: Captain Francis Asbury Vaughan of the First Texas Cavalry, USA

Texan in Blue: Captain Francis Asbury Vaughan of the First Texas Cavalry, USA

McCaslin, Richard B.
Stewart, J. Wayne

Paperback

Historical FiguresRegional: SouthwestSouth

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1625110901
ISBN13: 9781625110909
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 181
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

Francis Asbury Vaughan left his home in Guadalupe County, Texas on July 4, 1862, to fight in the Civil War. But he did not join a Confederate unit. Unlike twenty-one of his brothers and cousins, and most white male Texans who fought in that conflict, he became a captain in the First Texas Cavalry, USA, the best-known Union outfit from the Lone Star State. Fortunately for historians, he recorded some of his wartime experiences in what he called a memorandum, which remains in the possession of his descendants along with other treasured records concerning him and his relatives. These documents are the foundation for this book, which provides a unique insight into the ideals and actions of a Texan who not only served for three years as a Union officer but afterward became a Republican for the remaining three decades of his life in Texas. As a Texan in blue, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1868, a federal appointee and elected local official several times over, and a successful businessman and father, Vaughan established a legacy that offers useful perspectives not only on him, but on the events that surrounded and involved him.

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