Memoirs: with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War

"Memoirs: with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War." Notable Civil War Texans Book 1, by John H. Reagan is an inside look at pre & post Civil War Texas politics and Civil War Confederate politics by an insider. John Reagan was an early settler in Texas and served in the US Congress from Texas, in both House and Senate, both before and after the Civil War. In addition, he was Postmaster General in Confederate President Jefferson Davis' first (and only) Cabinet. He was friendly with Davis, Vice-President Alexander Stephens as well as other highly placed Confederate politicians and army officers. From his station in the Confederate Cabinet he gives a first hand view of Confederate politics and war time decisions. He opposed, for instance, Lee's second invasion of the North that ended with the disaster at Gettysburg. Instead, he proposed that Lee feign an invasion to paralyze the Union army north of the Potomac while sending reinforcements to relieve Vicksburg, Mississippi, the loss of which modern historians consider a defeat as bad if not worse than the defeat at Gettysburg. Reagan's account of pre & post Civil War Texas politics is also enlightening regarding the history of Texas secession thinking as well as the politics of the Texas Reconstruction period. A must read for the student of Texas history for background material that led to the events of the momentous period from 1840-1880. There are approximately 124,000+ words and approximately 413+ pages at 300 words per page in this e-book. NOTE: This book has been scanned then OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has been applied to turn the scanned page images back into editable text. Then every effort has been made to correct typos, spelling, and to eliminate stray marks picked up by the OCR program. The original and/or extra period images, if any, were then placed in the appropriate place and, finally, the file was formatted for the e-book criteria of the site. This means that the text CAN be re-sized, searches performed, & bookmarks added, unlike some other e-books that are only scanned---errors, stray marks, and all. We have added an Interactive Table of Contents & an Interactive List of Illustrations if any were present in the original. This means that the reader can click on the links in the Table of Contents or the List of Illustrations & be instantly transported to that chapter or illustration. Our aim is to provide the reader AND the collector with long out-of-print (OOP) classic books at realistic prices. If you load your mobile device(s) with our books, not only will you have fingertip access to a large library of antiquarian and out-of-print material at reasonable prices, but you can mark them up electronically & always have them for immediate reference without worrying about damage or loss to expensive bound copies. We will be adding to our titles regularly, look for our offerings on your favorite e-book site.