http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Texas-marks-150-year-anniversary-of-secession--114856109.html
Sam Houston tried to tell Texans secession and joining the Confederacy wouldn't work.
He warned of "rivers of blood," a generation left dead or crippled by war and ultimate defeat of the South at the hands of the industrial superior North.
"After enduring civil war for years, will there be any promise of a better state of things than we now enjoy?" Houston wrote in a November 1860 letter preserved among documents at his namesake museum in Huntsville.
A secession convention that assembled in Austin 150 years ago this weekend rejected the Texas governor's advice.
"I think everybody pretty much knew what was coming," Mac Woodward, curator of collections at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, says.
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this is just the first part of the article; it's too long to post here.
Sam Houston tried to tell Texans secession and joining the Confederacy wouldn't work.
He warned of "rivers of blood," a generation left dead or crippled by war and ultimate defeat of the South at the hands of the industrial superior North.
"After enduring civil war for years, will there be any promise of a better state of things than we now enjoy?" Houston wrote in a November 1860 letter preserved among documents at his namesake museum in Huntsville.
A secession convention that assembled in Austin 150 years ago this weekend rejected the Texas governor's advice.
"I think everybody pretty much knew what was coming," Mac Woodward, curator of collections at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, says.
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this is just the first part of the article; it's too long to post here.