during the civil war, Texas was a confederate supply state.
Texas' main reasons for succession were slave related, but they also had a good bit of white supremacy, X/which is always a good thing. /X
Sam Houston was deposed as governor after refusing to swear an oath to the confederacy.
He could have accepted Lincolns offer of troops, but wanted to avoid bloodshed.
After lee's surrender, texas was a powder keg. Unmotivated and disloyal troops presented a danger to the civilian population of texas.
In June, 1865, the union rolled into texas.
* X/ and /X are sarcasm tags.
