After Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a group of Confederate officers decided to ask for volunteers to cross the Rio Grande, conquer the country up to the Sierra Madre mountains, then form their own government.
The officers asked Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner to command them. As Buckner delayed in giving an answer, the Confederate troops drifted away, most returning home, and there were no volunteers for the Sierra Madre venture. Several Confederate officers decided to go anyway.
A group that campaigned unsuccessfully for Texas to issue a specialty license plate featuring a Confederate flag is suing the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles board in federal court.
The Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a 30,000-member group based in Columbia, Tenn., released a statement Thursday after filing the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Austin arguing that the DMV infringed on its right to free speech by refusing the license plate design.
The billboard advertisements for the new Discovering the Civil War exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciencestrike a heavy tone, asking “What have we done?” in all caps.
There are many more questions raised inside the exhibit, put together in part by the National Archives, but while the events may be haunting, the visuals are designed to draw visitors in.
However popular it may be to demonize the South for the Civil War, its veterans have surely come to honor.
Groups from across West Texas and the Panhandle gathered recently to unveil a monument commemorating the burial site of Confederate patriot Ridgley Greathouse in the East Mound Cemetery just outside Matador.
The events in West Texas may not have had much of an effect on the outcome of the Civil War, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t interesting stories to be told.
That’s the view of the men and women who participated in the Texas-Confederate occupation of Fort Davis 150th anniversary event last weekend at Fort Davis National Park.
A proposed Texas license plate created to honor Civil War veterans was under fire Sunday from elected officials who have vowed to protest the plate’s Confederate flag design.
“We cannot allow the state to issue a symbol of intimidation,” US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) told a crowd of community leaders.
There is much to touch – and anguish – the heart in Discovering the Civil War, which begins its six-month run Saturday at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
There are combatants’ letters, diaries and photos; terse resignations by career soldiers off to defend a new nation; lofty documents of freedom; and a stark arsenal of tools of death.
Opponents of a proposed Confederate flag license plate in Texas presented petitions containing 22,000 signatures Wednesday to a state board that could vote on the politically charged issue as soon as next month.
The petitions were presented by representatives of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the self-styled progressive organization Progress Texas, who urged the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ governing board not to approve a vanity plate that contains the Confederate battle flag.
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