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\u003cP\u003eThe Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war did not destroy Texas's farms or plantations or her few miles of railroads. Although unchallenged from without, Confederate Texans faced challenges from withinâfrom fellow Texans who opposed their cause. Dissension sprang from a multitude of seeds. It emerged from prewar political and ethnic differences; it surfaced after wartime hardships and potential danger wore down the resistance of less-than-enthusiastic rebels; it flourished, as some reaped huge profits from the bizarre war economy of Texas.\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\u003cI\u003eTexas Divided\u003c/I\u003e is neither the history of the Civil War in Texas, nor of secession or Reconstruction. Rather, it is the history of men dealing with the sometimes fragmented southern society in which they livedâsome fighting to change it, others to preserve itâand an examination of the lines that divided Texas and Texans during the sectional conflict of the nineteenth century.\u003c/P\u003e |
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