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THE HISTORY OF TE X A S

S T U D E N T E - S O U R C E C E N T E R

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Chapter 5

Overview

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Chapter Links

Mexican Texans in the Civil War ~ excellent overview in The Handbook of Texas.
Texas in the Civil War ~ excellent overview in The Handbook of Texas.
Texas State Library and Archives Commision, Declaration of Causes: February 2, 1861 ~ A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union.
Texas in the Secession Crisis at Links to Some Texas History Primary Source Documents On the Internet compiled by Roger A. Griffin, Ph.D, Professor of History Emeritus, Austin, Texas. Offers links to correspondence sent by or received by various individuals who played a major role in the secessionist crisis in Texas.
Slave Narratives of Navarro County and other primary source documents, including a link to a Biographies Index ( Navarro County).
Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter (1905), was the daughter of Louis T. Wigfall of Marshall, Texas. Her memoirs tell of her childhood in Marshall, Texas and of events through the end of the Civil War.