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Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor, 17: James Webb Throckmorton

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Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede. James Webb Throckmorton of McKinney was one of them. Yet upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and fought in a number of campaigns. At war's end, his centrist position as a conservative Unionist ultimately won him election as governor. Still, his refusal to support the Fourteenth Amendment or to protect aggressively the rights and physical welfare of the freed slaves led to clashes with ...

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Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor, 17: James Webb Throckmorton 2008, Texas A&M University Press

ISBN-13: 9781603440400

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