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Why Texans Fought in the Civil War
Contributor(s): Grear, Charles David (Author)

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 ISBN: 1603448098     ISBN-13: 9781603448093
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
OUR PRICE: $21.80  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military - United States
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
Dewey: 976.405
Series: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.84 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
- Cultural Region - South
- Geographic Orientation - Texas
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
 
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Publisher Description:
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 Mining important primary sources--including thousands of letters and unpublished journals--he affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants' own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles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.
 
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