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The Civil War: Why Did Texans Fight?

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Fighting for what’s right The United States of America is peaceful, however, the USA wasn’t always a peaceful, slave-free area. In 1787, in order to “create a more perfect union,” 13 states joined together. The men who wrote the Constitution had hope for the future of the Union, but they knew their dream for the Union to last forever was nearly impossible. The real question being stated is The Civil War: Why Did Texans Fight? Texans battled in the Civil War to defend states’ rights, for their love of Texas and their families, and to preserve slavery. First off, Texans battled in the War that took 215,000 lives for their love of Texas and their families. In document D, John Wesley Rabb wrote many letters to his family, most of them for his mother. In one of these many letters, he wrote, “I want to be home so bad… I hear that the Yanks are in Texas.”( Document C) John Wesley Rabb was one of the 65,000 Texans who fought in the Civil War. He cared very deeply for his mother, as well as the rest of his family. His passion for Texas drove him to keep fighting, even after gunshot wounds in the stomach and chest. …show more content…

The Texas State Gazette wrote, “ This is a Union of equal states, and no state can force another state either to remain in it or to withdraw from it.” (Document C) This document states that every state has equal rights, and that no state has more power than another state. Also from Document C, Abraham Lincoln stated, “No state upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union.” What Abraham Lincoln meant by this is that no state can just say they are out of the Union. There is much more to it than simply stating that they are no longer part of the Union. This brings us to our third and final

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