The Lone Star State Turns South
How Texas, the last of the Deep South states to secede, quickly became central to the fledgling Confederacy.
View ArticleThe War Comes to Galveston
Why the Union Navy placed a high priority on blockading Texas.
View ArticleBlood and Sand
The Battle of Valverde and the Confederate campaign to capture California.
View ArticleFighting on Fumes
Short on supplies, the Confederate army stumbles in northern New Mexico.
View ArticleMassacre on the Nueces
Confederate forces set upon several dozen German Americans in the Texas Hill Country in August 1862. The result was murder.
View ArticleThe Great Hanging at Gainesville
Why dozens of white men were lynched across Texas in October 1862.
View ArticlePrince John Recaptures Galveston
The Confederate victory on the Gulf of Mexico coast was the high-water mark for the rebellion in Texas.
View ArticleJohn Bell Hood’s Great Adventure
A Texas brigade's grand journey to the battlefields of Pennsylvania.
View ArticleThe Last Stand of the Civil War
The Confederates won the battle, but they had already lost the war.
View ArticleThe War Comes to Galveston
Why the Union Navy placed a high priority on blockading Texas.
View ArticleBlood and Sand
The Battle of Valverde and the Confederate campaign to capture California.
View ArticleFighting on Fumes
Short on supplies, the Confederate army stumbles in northern New Mexico.
View ArticleMassacre on the Nueces
Confederate forces set upon several dozen German Americans in the Texas Hill Country in August 1862. The result was murder.
View ArticleThe Great Hanging at Gainesville
Why dozens of white men were lynched across Texas in October 1862.
View ArticlePrince John Recaptures Galveston
The Confederate victory on the Gulf of Mexico coast was the high-water mark for the rebellion in Texas.
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