Texas, the Dark Corner of the Confederacy: Contemporary Accounts of the Lone Star State in the Civil War (Third Edition)

by B.P. Gallaway

Book Overview

In the summer of 1863 Kate Stone, a twenty-two-year-old refugee from Louisiana, wrote that in Texas she had certainly found "a dark corner of the Confederacy." Excerpts from her diary are among the forty documents dating from the eve of the Civil War to the collapse of the Confederacy, by civilians as well as soldiers in all parts of the state, that make up this lively and informative collection. B. P. Gallaway, a professor of history at Abilene Christian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803270364
• ISBN13: 9780803270367
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Book on Texas during the Civil War

Outstanding book on Texas during the Civil War. I would recommend it to anyone researching Texas or the Civil War. Very good book. Well researched.