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PENDLETON MURRAH AND STATES RIGHTS IN CIVIL WAR TEXAS.(Texas governor during the Civil War)
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Civil War History
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June 1, 1999
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- Moretta, John
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Texas was protective of states' rights during the Civil War. When Pendleton Murrah became Governor of Texas in 1863, he reversed his predecessor's policy of unquestioning support of the Confederate federal government. He accused the government in Richmond, VA, of national encroachment on Texas, and warned Texans of Confederate policies to subjugate state rights.
Secession in Texas, as in the rest of the Confederacy, made Southern rights and the embracing of separation the foundation of a new national loyalty. Confederation created a new political entity to which all Texans suddenly owed their allegiance. Since opposition to secession in Texas had been minimal, insurrectionists found ...
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No deal in Natchez; hospitals will fight over too few patients. (Jefferson...
Mississippi Business Journal;
August 13, 1990 ;
Mason, Sonya;
787 words
......negotiations between county-owned Jefferson Davis Memorial Hospital and privately-owned...county-owned Hinds General Hospital. Jefferson Davis officials wanted to buy the private...cost about $8 million, according to Jefferson Davis administrator William G. Mitchell...
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Jefferson Davis: Confederate President.(Book Review)
Presidential Studies Quarterly;
December 1, 2004 ;
Coles, David;
787 words
...Jefferson Davis: Confederate President. By Herman...twentieth century, Confederate president Jefferson Davis remained, surprisingly, a somewhat...the first volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, which currently comprises 11 volumes...
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'Unreconstructed Rebel' ; The Jefferson Davis bicentennial provides a...
Columbia Daily Tribune;
February 24, 2008 ;
ALLEN G. BREED;
787 words
......other tall, log cabin-born Kentuckian, Jefferson Davis, whose 200th has turned out to be...educate the public about the real Jefferson Davis." The agency didn't even reply. Even...planning a celebration in recognition of Jefferson Davis' 200th birthday" easily passed the...
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"We Can Do It!" Recruitment and Socialization Through WWII War Effort...
Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship;
October 1, 2003 ;
Halbesleben, Jonathon R B; Becker, Jennifer A H; Bivona, Matthew D; Buckley, M Ronald;
787 words
......paper examines the role that World War II war effort posters played in the recruitment and...purpose is to understand the effect of the war effort posters through the lens of contemporary...end, a brief historical overview of the war effort posters and their role in World War II...
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BOOK NOTES: Albertans and the war effort
Ukrainian Weekly, The;
June 29, 1997 ;
449 words
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Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart.
Journal of Southern History;
November 1, 2000 ;
DIX, MARY SEATON;
636 words
...Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. By Felicity...biographer would undertake a life of Jefferson Davis--it is so long, full, and controversial...agree. This is a good biography of Jefferson Davis, but it is partisan. Strange then...
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The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis
The Journal of Southern History;
November 1, 2006 ;
Nystrom, Justin;
474 words
...The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. By Donald E. Collins. The American...the Civil War, Confederate president Jefferson Davis was perhaps one of the South's most...phases in the later life and death of Jefferson Davis. In great detail he chronicles Davis...
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The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis.(Book review)
Journal of Southern History;
November 1, 2006 ;
Nystrom, Justin;
471 words
...The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. By Donald E. Collins. The American...the Civil War, Confederate president Jefferson Davis was perhaps one of the South's most...phases in the later life and death of Jefferson Davis. In great detail he chronicles Davis...
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Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;
April 1, 2003 ;
Quigley, Paul D H;
687 words
...Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings. Edited by...his right-hand man Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis has never loomed particularly large...know Davis firsthand. The Papers of Jefferson Davis project continues to make the scattered...
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PORTRAIT OF JEFFERSON DAVIS REMOVED AFTER RACIAL INCIDENT.(NEWS)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);
April 4, 2001 ;
291 words
......Confederate president and alumnus Jefferson Davis from a residence hall after a racial...decided to remove the portrait from Jefferson Davis Hall last week after meeting with...they might want to see a portrait of Jefferson Davis,'' he said. ''But in a residence hall...
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TAKING THE MEASURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
The Boston Globe;
January 19, 2001 ;
Michael J. Larkin, Globe Staff;
787 words
......easy, one-dimensional assessment of Jefferson Davis, labeling him a traitor to rival Benedict...don't hold him a traitor either. "Jefferson Davis, American," William Cooper's outstanding...underpinning to the idea of honor in Jefferson Davis's own mind and in the South." Eight...
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Jefferson Davis Monument, Kentucky
Archive Photos;
January 1, 1996 ;
90 words
...Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Jefferson Davis Monument, Kentucky The Jefferson Davis Monument in Kentucky is seen. Known as "The...Union on June 1, 1792. monuments Kentucky Jefferson Davis landmarks tourist sites tourist attractions...
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Jefferson Davis, American
The Journal of Southern History;
August 1, 2002 ;
Ballard, Michael B;
787 words
...Jefferson Davis, American. By William J. Cooper Jr...ISBN 0-394-56916-4.) Concluding that Jefferson Davis has generally not been kindly treated...xiv). Above all, Cooper presents Jefferson Davis as a national figure who believed...
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Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Shrine, at center of new trend: 'cultural...
The Mississippi Business Journal;
June 16, 1997 ;
Anonymous;
692 words
......greatest internal conflict, Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Shrine and last home of the Confederacy...founding in 1699, the $4.5 million Jefferson Davis Presidential Library currently under...Mississippi. Beauvoir was the last home of Jefferson Davis. He moved to Beauvoir in 1877 to ...
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