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Hood's Texas Brigade - The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy's Most Celebrated Unit (Hardcover)
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Hood's Texas Brigade - The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy's Most Celebrated Unit (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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One of the most effective units to fight on either side of the
Civil War, the Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia
served under Robert E. Lee from the Seven Days Battles in 1862 to
the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. In Hood's Texas Brigade,
Susannah J. Ural presents a nontraditional unit history that traces
the experiences of these soldiers and their families to gauge the
war's effect on them and to understand their role in the white
South's struggle for independence. According to Ural, several
factors contributed to the Texas Brigade's extraordinary success:
the unit's strong self-identity as Confederates; the mutual respect
among the junior officers and their men; a constant desire to
maintain their reputation not just as Texans but as the top
soldiers in Robert E. Lee's army; and the fact that their families
matched the men's determination to fight and win. Using the
letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper accounts, official reports,
and military records of nearly 600 brigade members, Ural argues
that the average Texas Brigade volunteer possessed an unusually
strong devotion to southern independence: whereas most Texans and
Arkansans fought in the West or Trans- Mississippi West, members of
the Texas Brigade volunteered for a unit that moved them over a
thousand miles from home, believing that they would exert the
greatest influence on the war's outcome by fighting near the
Confederate capital in Richmond. These volunteers also took pride
in their place in, or connections to, the slave-holding class that
they hoped would secure their financial futures. While Confederate
ranks declined from desertion and fractured morale in the last
years of the war, this belief in a better life, albeit one built
through slave labor, kept the Texas Brigade more intact than other
units. Hood's Texas Brigade challenges key historical arguments
about soldier motivation, volunteerism and desertion, home-front
morale, and veterans' postwar adjustment. It provides an intimate
picture of one of the war's most effective brigades and sheds new
light on the rationales that kept Confederate soldiers fighting
throughout the most deadly conflict in U.S. history.
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