| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era. By Dale Baum. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xx, 283 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8071-2245-9.)

Who were the southern Unionists? This political conundrum has intrigued historians of the Civil War era for decades, and their answers have been varied and contradictory. Dale Baum now weighs into the debate with an intriguing analysis of county voting patterns in Texas between 1857 and 1869. His Unionists include a broad range of antisecessionists, dissenters within the Confederacy, and postwar scalawags. Not surprisingly, he finds the identities and motivations of these people to be mixed. More surprisingly—and significantly—he concludes that unionism, as an expression of a shared political ideology and agenda, cannot adequately explain the political divisions in Texas over secession, the Confederacy, and Reconstruction. . . .

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