"Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other,,," Topic

… Sides of Civil War Texas,

"Most histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood's Brigade, Terry's Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity to the history of Civil War Texas.

The authors—all noted scholars of Texas and Civil War history—show that slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, Tejanos, German immigrants, and white women all took part in the struggle, even though some never found themselves on a battlefield. Their stories depict the Civil War as a conflict not only between North and South but also between neighbors, friends, and family members. By framing their stories in the analytical context of the "long Civil War," Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance reveals how friends and neighbors became enemies and how the resulting violence, often at the hands of secessionists, crossed racial and ethnic lines. The chapters also show how ex-Confederates and their descendants, as well as former slaves, sought to give historical meaning to their experiences and find their place as citizens of the newly re-formed nation.

Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas"

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Armand

Sam Houston was governor of Texas at the time of secession. He refused to go along with it, and was removed from office for that.

Not knocking the book or author, but I don't think it is much of a surprise that there was unionist and pacifist support in Confederate Texas.

Maybe there are not many books about them? (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

In Comfort Texas, less than an hour from San Antonio, there is a monument to a number of Texas unionists who were massacred by Rebel home guard.

It says "Treue der Union" – True to the Union.

Masacreed…?… in a battle or what?

Just curious!.

Amicalement
Armand

Read about it here (yeah, its wiki, but its a start):

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Not that unusual. There were mixed allegiances all through the South and North.

Thanks!.

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Armand