Civil Wars Connection to Texas
Texas was the seventh state to decide to secede from the United States and join the Confederacy. 25,000 Texans joined the confederate army by the end of 1861, and an estimated 90,000 Texans fought throughout the war for the confederacy. Also (in contribution to the tremendous involvement in the Civil War that Texans had), on multiple occasions throughout the Civil War Texan troops fought frontier and border raiders and operated prisoner camps, making them vital to ensure the odds of the Confederacy being victorious in the long and pugnacious clash of cultures that modern-day American citizens have come to call, “the Civil War.”
Besides Texans actively supporting (and fighting alongside) the Confederacy, they also contributed economically to the side to which they had so grown to endorse. It is widely known that Texas primarily depended on agriculture during the time of the Civil War, so it makes sense that they would use their large farms to their advantage (or at least until the war dragged on longer than it was supposed to, and the Union went through and burned all plantations (in sight) to the ground; a time in which Texans grieved over their colossal losses both emotionally, and in wealth).
Another major way that Texas helped the Confederacy, had a lot to do with its location next to Mexico. As the war grew longer and resources became scarce, Confederate armies began lacking the (basic) supplies they needed in order to win the war. “What solution to this problem could Texas have had?” you might ask. The answer to this bewildering question; Texas could easily trade with Mexico. While it wasn’t towards the end of the war in 1864 that General Ford (of the Confederacy obviously) reclaimed and reopened trading posts with Mexico in Brownsville, the reclamation of this critical post aided Confederate forces, and probably would have done so even more, had the war gone on longer.
Besides Texans actively supporting (and fighting alongside) the Confederacy, they also contributed economically to the side to which they had so grown to endorse. It is widely known that Texas primarily depended on agriculture during the time of the Civil War, so it makes sense that they would use their large farms to their advantage (or at least until the war dragged on longer than it was supposed to, and the Union went through and burned all plantations (in sight) to the ground; a time in which Texans grieved over their colossal losses both emotionally, and in wealth).
Another major way that Texas helped the Confederacy, had a lot to do with its location next to Mexico. As the war grew longer and resources became scarce, Confederate armies began lacking the (basic) supplies they needed in order to win the war. “What solution to this problem could Texas have had?” you might ask. The answer to this bewildering question; Texas could easily trade with Mexico. While it wasn’t towards the end of the war in 1864 that General Ford (of the Confederacy obviously) reclaimed and reopened trading posts with Mexico in Brownsville, the reclamation of this critical post aided Confederate forces, and probably would have done so even more, had the war gone on longer.