The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division by Blessington

Defending Texas Certain history is supposed to stay buried these days. It needs to be hidden away, never talked about, unless to condemn it. Those old monuments? “They have to go,” say the high-pitched voices. But Texas has Confederate heroes worth knowing, and our history from 1861 to 1865 is worth exploring. It’s a period of time we should seek to understand. Not as twenty-first century gate-keepers say we should understand it, but as the people who lived it understood it.   I know publishing a Confederate history will produce squawking from certain folks enamored of their own virtue.  These shallow thinkers can’t comprehend that it’s possible to abhor slavery and still honor our Confederate veterans. We can lament the horrible institution and still admire the courage and martial prowess of our forebears. It just takes a degree of broad-mindedness. A willingness to look at the past not through our own experience, but through the experience of those long dead. If some people can’