TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THE TEXAS VOLUME

CHAPTER I. The State of Texas in 1860--Unfavorable Political Conditions--Election of Governor Runnels in 1857--Secession and the African Slave Trade Agitated--Election of Governor Houston in I859--His Opposition to Separate State Action

CHAPTER II. The Agitation and Action after the Election of Abraham Lincoln, President--Calls upon Governor Houston to Convene the legislature--Speeches For and Against State Action--Call for a Convention by Citizens--Governor Houston Convenes the Legislature--Co-operation of States Advocated as a Diversion from Separate State Action--The Legislature and Convention Meet--Ordinance of Secession Passed--Committee on Safety Appointed to Take the Federal Property

CHAPTER III. The Committee on Public Safety Appoints a Sub-Committee to Confer with General Twiggs--Col. Ben McCulloch to Raise a Force for the Northwestern Frontier --Col. John S. Ford to Raise a Force to Go to the Lower Rio Grande--Instructions Given Them, and They Set About Their Duties--Secession Submitted to a Vote of the People --Delegates Elected to the Convention at Montgomery--General Twiggs Issues an Order of Surrender--Thanks by the Convention

CHAPTER lV. Convention Reassembles--Returns of Election Counted--Independence Declared--Governor Houston Posts the Vote March 4th--Provisional Constitution Ratified --Committee Sent to the Governor--His Answer--A Resolution Continuing the State Government--All Officers to Take Official Oath-- Governor and Secretary Refuse to Take lt--Ed Clark Declared Governor--Governor Houston Retires--He Publishes His Protest--Effect of the Vote on Secession --General Houston Disclaims Intention to Resist Colonel Waite--Convention Adjourns--Leading Men that Went to the Army

CHAPTER V. Proceedings of the Legislature--The Expedition of Colonel Ford to the Rio Grande--Colonel Van Dorn Comes to Texas--He Finishes the Capture and Surrender of Federal Troops--Their Embarkation--Other Commanders Go to New Mexico and to Indian Territory--Governor Clark Assists in Raising Troops
p> CHAPTER VI. Brigadier-General H‚bert Assumes Command --Troops Raised for the Defense of the Coast--The Blockade-Troops for Arkansas--Troops at Arkansas Post--Battles of Oak Hills and Elkhorn--Forces Transferred to Mississippi--Troops Sent to Tennessee and to Virginia, to the Lower Rio Grande, and to New Mexico and Arizona--Organization of Confederate Government--Members of Congress Elected--Message of Governor Clark

CHAPTER VII. Francis R. Lubbock, Governor--His Message Recommends Appropriation for Raising Troops---Reorganization of the Militia--Military Board Created--Hospital Fund--County Court to Levy Taxes--Effort to Have a Northeast Sub-District--Brig-Gen. H. E. McCulloch Assumes Command in It-- Difficulty of Raising Infantry--Cavalry Easily Raised--A Number of Infantry Regiments Sent to Arkansas and Form a Division--Capture of Arkansas Post--Regiment Sent to Indian Territory--Battle at Poison Spring --Troops Sent to Mississippi and Tennessee--Regiments and Battalions Retained in Texas--State Troops--Martial Law--Conscription--Troops for Rio Grande

CHAPTER VIII. Frontier Protection--Galveston Shelled--Conscription--Evacuation of Sabine Pass--Yellow Fever--Evacuation of Galveston, October, 1862--Defense of Port Lavaca

CHAPTER IX. Military Condition Explained--General Ma- gruder Assumes Command of the District of Texas--The Battle of Galveston--Signal Defeat of the Enemy

CHAPTER X. A Famous Naval Exploit--Capture of Federal Vessels off Sabine Pass--A Lady's Description--Engage- ment at Lighthouse, Sabine Pass--Defense of St. Joseph's Island

CHAPTER XI. Movement of Troops from Arkansas to North- ern Louisiana--The Engagements There--Gen. E. Kirby Smith Assumes Command of the Trans-Mississippi Depart- ment--Headquarters Moved to Shreveport--Mails Superintended by Dr. J. H. Starr--Sabine Pass--Federal Preparations to Capture It--Splendid Naval Battle in its Defense

CHAPTER XII. Home Supplies by Home Industry--The Collection of Army Supplies--Salt Manufacture--Iron Works --Penitentiary Cloth--Its Distribution--A New Military Board--Purchase and Importation of Cotton--Gunshops and Armory--Large Prison Camp near Tyler--Operations of Military Board--Disposition of Hospital Fund

CHAPTER XIII. Fort Brown Evacuated--General Banks' Ex- pedition on the Texas Coast--Occupation of Corpus Christi and Other Ports---Departure of Banks--August Election, 1863--Military and Other Operations Continued--Frontier Protection--Expedition Against the Federals on the Rio Grande--"The Last Battle of the War".

CHAPTER XIV. Texas Troops in Service in Other Southern States--The Battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chickamauga --Texas Troops in Louisiana and Arkansas--Engagements at Camp Bisland, Berwick's Bay, Fordoche, Bayou Bour- beau, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry

CHAPTER XV. Texas Troops in Arkansas and Louisiana Move Southward--Changes and Promotions--No More Batties--Camp Grice--News of the Surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee --Gens. Kirby Smith, Magruder, and Forney Address the Soldiers--The "Break Up" and Travel Home--Surrender--Its Terms--Texas Generals and Colonels--Albert Sidney Johnston a Texas Officer

CHAPTER XVI. The Texas Citizen Soldier--His Education as a Soldier--Indian Fights--Early Combats in Texas and Mexico--The Texas Yell--Its Effect--A Statue of a Texas Soldier--The Significance of the War Between the States--The Two Reconstructions--The Present National Government--How Another War may be Averted

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