PENDLETON MURRAH AND STATES RIGHTS IN CIVIL WAR TEXAS.(Texas governor during the Civil War)

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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