Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

Illustrations and Maps Illustrations “The Great Hanging of Gainesville” 31 Brig. Gen. Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Union military governor of Texas and commander of the 2nd Texas Cavalry (Union) 32 Brig. Gen. Benjamin McCulloch, Indian Territory commander 47 Lt. Richard “Dick” Dowling, Confederate commander of the Davis Guards at the Battle of Sabine Pass 48 Brig. Gen. John Creed Moore, commander of the 2nd Texas Infantry 51 Brig. Gen. James Webb Throckmorton, commander of Texas’ First Frontier District 58 Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley, commander of the New Mexico campaign 61 Brig. Gen. Felix Huston Robertson, the only native-born Texan general 73 Brig. Gen. Louis T. Wigfall, Confederate senator from Texas 77 Rufus King Felder and his cousin Meirs, Company E, 5th Texas Infantry 82 Col. John Gregg, commander of the 7th Texas Infantry 86 Maj. Gen. Samuel Bell Maxey, commander of the 9th Texas Infantry 88 James K. Street, 9th Texas Infantry 89 Jesse P. Bates, 9th Texas Infantry 90 Brig. Gen. Richard Montgomery Gano, commander of the Grapevine Volunteers and Gano’s Brigade 92 Col. Adam Rankin “Stovepipe” Johnson, commander of the 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers 96 Brig. Gen. Jerome Bonaparte Robertson, commander of Hood’s Texas Brigade 123 “Just Feeling for a Furlough” 124 Lt. James R. Loughridge, 4th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Texas Brigade 125 Col. James E. Harrison, 15th Texas Infantry and later commander of Polignac’s Brigade 131 Ferdinand Lindheimer, editor of the German-language newspaper Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung 140  Illustrations and Maps Col. Gustav Hoffmann, German commander of the 7th Texas Mounted Volunteers 143 Capt. Adolph Zoeller, Capt. Honek, and another unidentified German officer of the 1st Texas Cavalry 150 Funeral of German patriots at Comfort, Texas 151 Treúe der Union Monument, Comfort, Texas 152 Monument to Comal County Civil War soldiers in New Braunfels, Texas 153 Refugio Benavides, Atanacio Vidaurri, Cristobal Benavides, and John Z. Leyendecker, Confederate officers from Laredo, Texas 160 Maps Unionist regions of Texas 29 Texas, the “Highway of Nations” 63 Major battles that threatened Texas 113 The Mississippi River as a barrier 118 German regions of Texas 137 Predominately Hispanic counties of Texas 157 ...