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The civil war begins
The civil war starts. The war started after most of the states suceded from the union. The battles are long and hard but are they worth it? -
Secession Convention approves an ordinance.
The Secession Convention approves an ordinance withdrawing Texas from Union; the action is ratified by the voters on Feb. 23 in a referendum vote. Secession is official on March 2. -
South Carolina Sucedes
South Carolina sucedes from the union! After they sucede 6 other states sucede in the next 3-6 weeks. -
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Civil War
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Robert E. Lee ordered back to Washington.
Robert E. Lee is ordered to return to Washington from regimental headquarters at Fort Mason to assume command of the Union Army. Instead, Lee resigns his commission; he assumes command of the Confederate Army by June 1862. -
Texas accepted into the Confederate.
Texas accepted as a state by the provisional government of the Confederate States of America, even before its secession from the Union is official. -
Secession Convention.
The Secession Convention approves an ordinance accepting Confederate statehood -
Sam Houston resigns.
Sam Houston resigns as governor in protest against secession -
Union loyalists, start for mexico.
About 68 Union loyalists, mostly German immigrants from the area of Comfort, in Central Texas, start for Mexico in an attempt to reach US troops; 19 are killed by Confederates on the Nueces River. Eight others are killed on Oct. 18 at the Rio Grande. Others drown attempting to swim the river. Their deaths are commemorated in Comfort by the Treue der Union (True to the Union) monument. -
Forty-two men think about being union sypathizers
Forty-two men thought to be Union sympathizers are hanged at various times during October in Gainesville. -
The Constituitional Convetion
The Constitutional Convention approves an ordinance to nullify the actions of the Secession Convention. -
Battle of Palmito Ranch
The Battle of Palmito Ranch is fought near Brownsville, after the official end of the Civil War, because word of the war's end at Appomattox on April 9 has not yet reached troops in Texas. -
Gen. Granger announces slavery has ben abolished
Gen. Gordon Granger arrives at Galveston to announce that slavery has been abolished, an event commemorated today by the festival known as Juneteenth. -
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The Reconstruction
The Reconstruction right after the civil war. A time when all states that succeded recreated there constitutions, and rejoined. -
President Andrew Johnson
President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of peace between the United States and Texas -
The Bureau of Refugees
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's Bureau) begins operating in Texas, charged with helping former slaves make the transition to freedom. -
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Congressional Reconstruction
Congressional (or Military) Reconstruction replaces Presidential Reconstruction -
Voters
Texas voters approve a new state constitution. -
Wagon attacked by Kiowas & Comanches
Seven men in a wagon train are massacred at Salt Creek, about 20 miles west of Jacksboro, by Kiowas and Comanches led by chiefs Satanta, Big Tree, Satank and Eagle Heart. -
Buffalo Souldiers
• Black "Buffalo Soldiers" are first posted to Texas, eventually serving at virtually every frontier fort in West Texas from the Rio Grande to the Panhandle, as well as in other states. -
Houston & Tx. Railway
Houston and Texas Central Railway reaches the Red River, connecting there with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and creating the first all-rail route from Texas to St. Louis and the East. -
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Consturction begins on Tx. & Pacific Railway
Construction begins on the Texas & Pacific Railway; the 125-mile stretch between Longview and Dallas opens for service on July 1, 1873 -
Richard Coke
Inauguration of Democrat Richard Coke as governor marks the end of Reconstruction in Texas. -
Col. Ranald Mackenzie
Col. Ranald Mackenzie leads the 4th US Cavalry in the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, south of present-day Amarillo, an encounter that ends with the confinement of southern Plains Indians in reservations in Indian Territory. This makes possible the wholesale settlement of the western part of the state. -
The Agricultural & Mechanical College
The Agricultural and Mechanical College, later Texas A&M University, opens at College Station, becoming the first public institution of higher learning in the state. -
El Paso Salt War
The El Paso Salt War is the culmination of a long dispute caused by Anglos' attempts to take over salt-mining rights at the foot of Guadalupe Peak, a traditionally Mexican-American salt source. -
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Hurricane.
Hurricane destroys or damages every house in the port of Indianola, finishing the job started by another storm 11 years earlier. Indianola is never rebuilt. -
The Railroad Commision
The Railroad Commission, proposed by Gov. James Hogg, is established by the Texas legislature to regulate freight rates and to establish rules for railroad operations. -
Teddy Roosevelt arrives in San Antonio
Teddy Roosevelt arrives in San Antonio to recruit and train "Rough Riders" for the First Volunteer Cavalry to fight in the Spanish-American War in Cuba. -
Texans Voters
Texans votes for US senator in the Democratic primary, although the Texas legislature retains ultimate appointment authority, primary voters can express their preferences. -
Mexican civil war starts
Mexican civil war spills across the border, as refugees seek safety, combatants seek each other. -
The Daisy Breadford #3
The Daisy Bradford #3 well, drilled near Turnertown in Rusk County by wildcatter C.M. (Dad) Joiner, blows in, heralding the discovery of the huge East Texas Oil Field. -
A mazzive Explosion
A massive explosion, blamed on a natural-gas leak beneath the London Consolidated School building in Rusk County, kills an estimated 296 students and teachers. Subsequent deaths of people injured in the explosion bring the death count to 311. As a result, the Texas legislature requires that a malodorant be added to the odorless gas so that leaks can be more easily detected. -
Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson beats Coke Stevenson in the US Senate race by 87 votes. The winning margin in the disputed primary is registered in Ballot Box No. 13 in Jim Wells County.
