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Samuel C. Hyde Jr. | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4 | The History Cooperative
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Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas. By David Pickering and Judy Falls. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. xxvi, 223 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-89096-923-X.)

Emerging historical scholarship confirms an increasing trend away from sympathetic portrayals of those who supported the Confederacy. Amid the voluminous studies praising the accomplishments of the Grand Army of the Republic there remained a few books that assumed a pro-Southern partisan approach. The passionate narratives glorifying the Lost Cause that characterized many such studies in the early twentieth century have largely given way to sympathetic portrayals of those southerners who remained loyal to the Union. This new volume from Texas A&M University Press advances our awareness of the tribulations confronting Unionists in Civil War east Texas. . . .

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