Lone Star Blue and Gray: Essays on Texas in the Civil War

From the bitter struggles over secession to the surrender at Appomattox, Texas and Texans were caught up in the enormous political, economic, and military struggles of the Civil War. In this collection of sixteen essays from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and other leading scholarly journals, the authors take the reader through some of the most important aspects of the Civil War as experienced in the Lone Star State. This volume's renowned authors include Frank Vandiver, Stephen B. Oat…