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  2. Texas in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000) Howell, Kenneth Wayne (2009). The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War. University of North Texas Press. ISBN 9781574412598. Horton, Louise (2010) [1974]. Samuel Bell Maxey: A Biography. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-2927-8872-5.

  3. History of Texas (1865–1899) - Wikipedia

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    A. R. Roessler's Latest Map of the State of Texas, 1874. During the American Civil War, Texas had joined the Confederate States.The Confederacy was defeated, and U.S. Army soldiers arrived in Texas on June 19, 1865 to take possession of the state, restore order, and enforce the emancipation of slaves.

  4. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    During World War II the main universities like University of Texas and Texas A&M University gained a new national role. The wartime financing of university research, curricular change, campus trainee programs, and postwar veteran enrollments changed the tenor and allowed Texas schools to gain national stature.

  5. Timeline of the Republic of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas Declares Independence. Austin and Tanner map of Texas in 1836 Detail of the Republic of Texas from the Lizars map of Mexico and Guatemala, circa 1836. March 2 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is signed by 58 delegates at an assembly at Washington-on-the-Brazos and the Republic of Texas is declared. [1]

  6. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas re-entered war following the election of 1860. During this time, Black people comprised 30 percent of the state's population, and they were overwhelmingly enslaved. [100] When Abraham Lincoln was elected, South Carolina seceded from the Union; five other Deep South states quickly followed. A state convention considering secession opened ...

  7. List of conflicts involving the Texas Military - Wikipedia

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    Texas Archive War: Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers: Thomas I. Smith / Eli Chandler 0 Failure [11] 1844 Regulator–Moderator War: Texas Militia: Travis G. Broocks / Alexander Horton Unknown Accomplished [12] 1857 Cart War: Texas Militia: Unknown 0 Accomplished [13] 1886 Laredo Election Riot Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers. Texas Militia ...

  8. Battle of Galveston - Wikipedia

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    Map of Galveston Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. 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.

  9. The Old Army in Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Old Army in Texas is made up of six parts, which follow a series of maps of the military frontier in Texas from 1849 to 1881 and an introduction. The first part of the book is an updated version of an article Smith wrote in 1996 for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly analyzing combat operations by the US Army in Texas against indigenous nations.