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Lynn_east's List: Texas, Civil War
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Being a southern state, many of the landowners there did support the use of slavery for use on plantations and in farming. However, initially the governor of Texas during the period leading up to the Civil War, Sam Houston, refused to take an oath of allegiance to the newly formed Confederate states. Thus, he was replaced which allowed Texas to align itself with the Confederacy. Texas officially joined the Confederate States on March 2, 1861
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May 06, 13
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Some stayed to make swords - guns, actually - supplying the Rebel forces from factories small and large that remain only as memories on historical markers East Texans drive past today on downtown streets and on county roads.
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