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Civil War Texas: A History and a Guide. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 0-87611-171-1. Wooster Ralph A. (2015). Lone Star Blue and Gray: Essays on Texas in the Civil War. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 978-1-62511-025-1. Wooster Ralph A. (1995). Texas and Texans in the Civil War. Eakin Press. ISBN 1-57168-042-X.
The Battle of Galveston was a naval and land battle of the American Civil War, when Confederate forces under Major Gen. John B. Magruder expelled occupying Union troops from the city of Galveston, Texas on January 1, 1863. After the loss of the cutter Harriet Lane, the Union Fleet Commander William B. Renshaw blew up the stranded vessel USS ...
t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...
Beauregard takes Charleston Federal fort in the first battle of the American Civil War. May 18 –19, 1861. Battle of Sewell's Point. Virginia. D. Inconclusive. Union gunboats fight inconclusive battle with Confederate artillery. May 29 – June 1, 1861. Battle of Aquia Creek.
3 captured. The Battle of Palmito Ranch, also known as the Battle of Palmito Hill, is considered by some criteria the final battle of the American Civil War. It was fought May 12 and 13, 1865, on the banks of the Rio Grande east of Brownsville, Texas, and a few miles from the seaport of Los Brazos de Santiago, at the southern tip of Texas.
Corwin Amendment. Star of the West; Battle of Fort Sumter. Secession; Confederate States. This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War.
List of American Civil War battles. Battle of Fort Sumter – April 12, 1861 and April 13, 1861. First Battle of Bull Run – July 21, 1861. Battle of Wilson's Creek – August 10, 1861. Battle of Fort Donelson – February 12 to February 16, 1862. Battle of Pea Ridge – March 7 and March 8, 1862.
Texas Road. CSS Texas (1865) Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War. Treue der Union Monument.