Texas, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate national strategy / Joseph G. Dawson III -- Warriors, husbands, and fathers: Confederate soldiers and their families / Richard Lowe -- "If we should succeed in driving the enemy back out of my native state": why Texans fought East of the Mississippi River during the Civil War / Charles D. Grear -- The price of liberty: the great hanging at Gainesville / Richard B. McCaslin -- The Civil War and the lives of Texas women / Angela Boswell -- Slaves taken to Texas for safekeeping during the Civil War / Dale Baum -- New perspectives on Texas Germans and the Confederacy / Walter B. Kamphoefner -- After the surrender: the postwar experiences of Confederate veterans in Harrison County, Texas / Randolph B. Campbell -- "I seemed to have no thought of the past, present, or future": Texans react to Confederate defeat / Carl H. Moneyhon -- Causes lost but not forgotten: George Washington Littlefield, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate memories at the University of Texas at Austin / Alexander Mendoza -- "Tell it like it was": Texas, the Civil War, and public history / Julie Holcomb.