Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor : James Webb Throckmorton /

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Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede. James Webb Throckmorton of McKinney was one of them. Yet upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and fought in a number of campaigns. At war?s end, his centrist po...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howell, Kenneth Wayne, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 17.
Temas:
Throckmorton, J. W. > (James Webb), > 1825-1894.
Throckmorton, J. W. > (James Webb), > 1825-1894
1800-1899
Governors > Texas > Biography.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Texas.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Governors
Politics and government
Texas > Politics and government > 19th century.
Texas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Texas
United States
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: an enigma in nineteenth-century Texas politics
  • The foundations of a frontier politician, 1825-50
  • Guardian of the frontier, 1851-57
  • The storm of passion and sectional hatred, 1857-61
  • The Civil War: "He that is not for us is against us," 1861-65
  • Tainted blood: early Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-66
  • "Every exertion within my reach": challenging presidential Reconstruction in Texas, 1866
  • An impediment to Reconstruction, 1867
  • Fueling the fires of redemption: the struggle to bring down radical rule in Texas, 1867-73
  • The end of the line: failed restorations and congressional mediocrity in the post-Reconstruction era, 1873-94.

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