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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865."”.
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The Rio Grande Expedition, 1863-1865
… Expedition left New Orleans, bound for the Texas coast. Reacting to the recent French occupation of Mexico, President Abraham Lincoln believed that the presence of U.S. troops in Texas would dissuade the French from intervening in the American Civil War. The first major objective of this …
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"We never met a foe in open field we did not drive, nor did we ever meet a foe who could drive us" : the 9th Texas Infantry.
The 9th Texas Infantry was formed at the start of the Civil War from companies recruited from North Texas. They fought with the Army of Tennessee until the end of the war. The men joined because of a variety of reasons from support for an independent Confederacy to a fear of being called cowards. …
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Render unto Caesar, render unto God : Texas denominational colleges and universities and the politics of the Civil War era.
… interact. The setting for this study is the Civil War era, which includes the period from the 1840s to the 1880s. The actors in this study are the state of Texas, Texas denominational colleges and universities, church leaders, and key educational pioneers. Analysis is limited to three …