Lone Star blue and gray
Subtitle: essays on Texas and the Civil War
By: edited by Ralph A. Wooster and Robert Wooster
Contributors: Texas State Historical Association
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association; Texas State Historical Assn
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Denton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781625110251
Subjects: History
Description: A collection of sixteen essays from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and other leading scholarly journals covering the Civil War and Texas from many angles, including military, political, social, and cultural aspects.
Notes: Original version:  Austin : Texas State Historical Association, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Civil War Texas: a review of the historical literature / Walter F. Bell; title: Memory, the Texas Revolution, and secession: the birth of Confederate nationalism in the Lone Star State / Andrew F. Lang; title: Embarrassing situation?: David E. Twiggs and the surrender of United States forces in Texas, 1861 / Jeanne T. Heidler; title: Home fronts; title: A "very muddy and conflicting" view: the Civil War as seen from Austin, Texas / David C. Humphrey; title: Slaves and rebels: the peculiar institution in Texas, 1861-1865 / James Marten; title: Pendleton Murrah and states rights in Civil War Texas / John Moretta; title: Gone from Texas and trading with the enemy: new perspectives on Civil War West Texas / Glen Sample Ely; title: War fronts; title: Texas coastal defense, 1861-1865 / Alwyn Barr; title: A Texas Cavalry raid: reaction to black soldiers and contrabands / Anne J. Bailey; title: To defend the sacred soil of Texas: Tom Green and the Texas Cavalry in the Red River campaign / Gary Joiner; title: The soldiers; title: Texans in the Union Army, 1861-1865 / Frank H. Smyrl; title: The social and cultural dynamics of soldiering in Hood's Texas Brigade / Charles E. Brooks; title: Fighting for the Confederacy: the white male population of Harrison County in the Civil War / Randolph B. Campbell; title: Meanings of the war; title: For our own best interests?: nineteenth-century Laredo Tejanos, military service, and the development of American nationalism / Alex Mendoza; title: Sarah Devereux: a study in Southern femininity / Joleene Maddox Snider; title: When Albert Sidney Johnston came home to Texas: Reconstruction politics and the reburial of a hero / Jerry Thompson.