CIVIL WAR JOURNAL

COMMANDERS

• Confederate commander: General Robert E. Lee
• Union commander: General Ulysses S. Grant

PRESIDENTS

• Union president: Abraham Lincoln
• Confederate president: Jefferson Davis

JOHN bELL hOOD

• Confederate general in the civil war
• Said to be "one of the best confederate commanders"
• Severely wounded at Gettysburg
• Fort Hood was named after him

JOHN REAGAN

• Receded from the U.S. House of Representatives to join the confederacy
• Captured and spent 22 weeks in captivity
• Included in "the 4 greatest Texans of the 19th century"

FRANCIS LUBBOCK

• Governor of Texas during the civil war
• Original,y from South Carolina
• Promoted aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis in 1864

THOMAS GREEN

• Helped operate the "twin sisters" cannons
• Confederate cavalry leader
• Promoted brigadier of the Trans-Mississippi Department

JOHN MAGRUDER

• Career military officer in the armies of the three nations
• General in the Imperial Mexican Army
• Most noted for delaying Federal troops in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign

POLITICAL ISSUES

• Texas seceded from the U.S., joined the confederacy, and supported the South in sectionalism
• Federal government wasn't helping Texas with attacks from Indians and outlaws
• Slavery was out,awed and citizens became angry

ECONOMIC ISSUES

• Northern states set tariffs and blockaded goods to the South
• South supplied 80% of cotton all over the world which declined during the war
• Farm production declined also

SOCIAL ISSUES

• Families fought against each other
• Some supporters from different sides faced hostility
• Women ran businesses and worked while men fought