Civil War

Lincoln had more support among the 100 War Democrats in Congress and the Senate than he did most Republicans. The only member of his Cabinet who supported going to war was a turncoat Democrat, his Postmaster General; Winfield Scott and the only actual abolitionist in his Cabinet, Seward, opposed it, along with the other six members.
You would be surprised how many think the Union Army was Republican the Southern Army Democrat!
 
You would be surprised how many think the Union Army was Republican the Southern Army Democrat!
I'm surprised so many "republicans" support pedophiles. Sad.

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You would be surprised how many think the Union Army was Republican the Southern Army Democrat!

No, I wouldn't. MAny southern states had northern units formed and who wnet north to join the Union armies. Alabama sent a couple of cavalry units north. In Texas a couple of counties seceded from the state govt. during the war in opposition to the southern revolt. Many families had soldiers on both sides.



Republicans won by running as a white nationalist Party; they advocated not allowing any blacks in the new territories at all, slave or 'free'. They manipulated foreign immigrants' ignorance of geography; the southern system had already reached its limits of expansion by 1850, and mot educated people knew this. It was a red herring issue by then. Lincoln's own state and others in the Midwest had passed severe Black Codes in the e1850's that made it nearly impossible for a black person to make a legal living, including making it illegal to sell black people property.

The CEnsus of 1860 shows about 9 slaves in the whole state of Nebraska, where slavery was legal under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, mostly owned by one man, a ferry operator. Yankee history of course leaves all of the facts out whenever it's embarrassing for them.


Lincoln lost a lot of votes in the 1862 mid-terms as it was thought he was turning the war into an anti-slavery campaign, and few white soldiers were fighting for that. As we can see from the legislation passed from 1860 on, slavery wasn't any kind of priority. After the war, over 90% of the black population remained in the South, not being welcome in any northern state until the big labor strikes came in the Gilded Age. The blacks became even more unwelcome due to their being imported as hired scabs to bust unions.
 
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No Texas county seceded from the CSA, though 1/4 of the secession vote opposed it. Several of the northern counties and Central Hill Country area counties did not want to leave the Union.
 

Did Any Texas County Secede from the State to Support the Union?​

No Texas county formally seceded from the state to support the Union. However, several counties strongly opposed secession and had significant Unionist sentiment:

  • Counties with anti-secession majorities included: Montague, Cooke, Grayson, Fannin, Lamar, Angelina, Burnet, Mason, Gillespie, Medina, Uvalde, Travis, Williamson, Bastrop, and Fayette2.
  • Some counties in the Hill Country and North Texas, especially those with large German immigrant populations, were notably pro-Union.
  • While no county officially seceded, some communities resisted Confederate authority, and Unionist militias formed in places like Gillespie and Kendall Counties.

🗳️ Which Southern State Allowed Citizens to Vote on Secession?​

Texas was the only Southern state that held a popular referendum on secession:

  • The Ordinance of Secession was passed by a convention vote (166–8) and then ratified by public vote on February 23, 1861.
  • Other Confederate states seceded via legislative or convention votes without direct public input.

📊 How Many Texans Voted Against Secession?​

  • In the 1861 referendum:
    • 46,153 voted for secession
    • 14,747 voted against it
  • That means roughly 24% of voters opposed secession, a significant minority given the political climate
 
The 1993 thesis by Melvin C. Johnson was titled "German Communities in Civil War Texas: Resistance and Loyalty in the Hill Country". It explored the political, cultural, and military dynamics of German immigrants in Central Texas during the Civil War, particularly their resistance to Confederate authority and their Unionist sympathies.

📚 Historical Significance and Reception​

  • Academic impact: Johnson’s thesis was praised for its archival rigor, drawing on county records, letters, and German-language newspapers to reconstruct the nuanced loyalties of Hill Country settlers.
  • Historiographical contribution: It challenged the simplistic narrative of a uniformly Confederate Texas by documenting localized resistance, especially among German communities in Gillespie, Kendall, and Comal counties.
  • Legacy: The thesis laid the groundwork for Johnson’s later award-winning book Polygamy on the Pedernales and articles in journals like Dialogue and the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal2.
 
The 1993 thesis by Melvin C. Johnson was titled "German Communities in Civil War Texas: Resistance and Loyalty in the Hill Country". It explored the political, cultural, and military dynamics of German immigrants in Central Texas during the Civil War, particularly their resistance to Confederate authority and their Unionist sympathies.

📚 Historical Significance and Reception​

  • Academic impact: Johnson’s thesis was praised for its archival rigor, drawing on county records, letters, and German-language newspapers to reconstruct the nuanced loyalties of Hill Country settlers.
  • Historiographical contribution: It challenged the simplistic narrative of a uniformly Confederate Texas by documenting localized resistance, especially among German communities in Gillespie, Kendall, and Comal counties.
  • Legacy: The thesis laid the groundwork for Johnson’s later award-winning book Polygamy on the Pedernales and articles in journals like Dialogue and the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal2.
By: Glen E. Lich

In Germany, the Forty-Eighters favored unification, constitutional government, and guarantees of human rights. In Texas and elsewhere in the United States, they provided the leadership to oppose nativism and to support a continental foreign policy. They almost universally opposed slavery, some arguing for immediate emancipation, even at the price of war, and other gradualists suggesting subsidies to slave holders over a longer transition to non-slavery.

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The Forty-Eighters played a big role in getting Lincoln elected.
 
No, I wouldn't. MAny southern states had northern units formed and who wnet north to join the Union armies. Alabama sent a couple of cavalry units north. In Texas a couple of counties seceded from the state govt. during the war in opposition to the southern revolt. Many families had soldiers on both sides.



Republicans won by running as a white nationalist Party; they advocated not allowing any blacks in the new territories at all, slave or 'free'. They manipulated foreign immigrants' ignorance of geography; the southern system had already reached its limits of expansion by 1850, and mot educated people knew this. It was a red herring issue by then. Lincoln's own state and others in the Midwest had passed severe Black Codes in the e1850's that made it nearly impossible for a black person to make a legal living, including making it illegal to sell black people property.

The CEnsus of 1860 shows about 9 slaves in the whole state of Nebraska, where slavery was legal under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, mostly owned by one man, a ferry operator. Yankee history of course leaves all of the facts out whenever it's embarrassing for them.


Lincoln lost a lot of votes in the 1862 mid-terms as it was thought he was turning the war into an anti-slavery campaign, and few white soldiers were fighting for that. As we can see from the legislation passed from 1860 on, slavery wasn't any kind of priority. After the war, over 90% of the black population remained in the South, not being welcome in any northern state until the big labor strikes came in the Gilded Age. The blacks became even more unwelcome due to their being imported as hired scabs to bust unions.
I only wish Sherman hadn't gone so easy on the treasonous South!
Next time no more mister nice guy!
 
I only wish Sherman hadn't gone so easy on the treasonous South!
Next time no more mister nice guy!

The South didn't 'commit treason'. The Federal govt. was specifically denied the power to use military force at the Constitutional Convention; James MAdison himself rejected the clause proposed by Pickney to grant the feds that power. The northern states were the first to snivel and threaten secession, and did so for decades before the South did, so we know they knew it was legal, they just wanted to loot the South to pay for corporate welfare spending, like the railroads, and fat Yankee manufacturers. There was no treason;Lincoln wanted a war, and started one, with the help of big business. No surprise the racist leftists like you are happy about the results. Just looking at all the legislation passed from 1860 to 1864 makes it blatantly obvious why they wanted a war, and it wasn't about slavery or 'preserving the Union', it was about looting and plundering.

You and foggy bottoms here just love mass murders, is all.
 
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No Texas county formally seceded from the state to support the Union. However, several counties strongly opposed secession and had significant Unionist sentiment:

A disingenuous claim, since the military intervened and prevented it. It was a done deal in many other counties as well.
 
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