Abstract
Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas . Edited by Jesus de la Teja . (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. viii + 285 pp. Illustrations, map, chart, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) This wide-ranging collection of essays presents discussions of the regional, socio-economic, and ethnic groups in Texas that opposed secession, rejected the Confederacy, or supported change during Reconstruction. Laura Lyons McLemore describes the United Daughters of the Confederacy as the major promoters for the collective memory of a Confederate Texas; but finds support for that image limited by the alternate heroic frontier memory encouraged by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Slave escapes during the conflict ended slaveholder illusions of loyal bondsmen and stirred fears of revolts, concludes Andrew J. … alwyn.barr{at}ttu.edu
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