This book describes the organization, leadership, and combat experiences of each of the seventy-eight regiments from Texas that served the Confederate forces. Also covered are the thirty-five artillery batteries attached to various infantry regiments and brigades. Includes: photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index.

Based on extensive research over three decades "Texas and Texans in the Civil War," fills a glaring gap in the literature on the Confederacy with this excellent study of Texas and its people during the Civil War. He follows the state's soldiers into battle across the conflict's vast military frontier, examines civilian conditions in the state as the war progressed, and assesses the state's political leadership.