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Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

Grear, Charles David

Paperback

Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by East Texas A&m University, Book 20

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Regional: South

ISBN10: 1603448098
ISBN13: 9781603448093
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: Aug 15 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources-including thousands of letters and unpublished journals-he affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants' own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles occurring so far from home. As Grear notes, in the decade prior to the Civil War the population of Texas had tripled. The state was increasingly populated by immigrants from all parts of the South and foreign countries. When the war began, it was not just Texas that many of these soldiers enlisted to protect, but also their native states, where they had family ties. CHARLES DAVID GREAR, who received his PhD in history from Texas Christian University, is an assistant professor of history at Prairie View A&M University. He holds a PhD from Texas Christian University.

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