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AUSTIN, Texas in the 1860s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Texas Secedes
    date February 2, 1861 to 1861map AUSTIN, Texastags Government, Law, Politics

    War fever and the eagerness to fight ran rampant as soon as Texas officially seceded from the Union. William Williston Heartsill, a young 22 year old store clerk working in Marshall, Texas was one of the first to enlist. Before he had left for training, Heartsill began a diary to record all the moments and sentiments leading to the cause of his enlistment. He believed that it was imperative to fight...

  2. Texas State Consitutional Convention Votes to Abolish Slavery
    date February 27, 1866map AUSTIN, Texastags African-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery

    On February 27, 1866, the Texas Constitutional Convention decided to ban slavery in their new state Constitution. With a vote of 56 to 26, as reported in The Baltimore Sun, the constitution abolished involuntary servitude, except as a form of punishment for crimes, protecting people of African decent in their right to own property and to testify in court. After the peace at Appomattox Courthouse, each...

  3. General Philip Sheridan removes Governor James Webb Throckmorton from office
    date July 30, 1867 to August 8, 1867map AUSTIN, Texastags Race-Relations, War

    According to the Reconstruction Acts, the military could remove and appoint a state's government figures in order to further Reconstruction. Under this system, the general in charge of the region in which the state was located would be responsible for making these decisions. Because President Andrew Johnson did not agree with many clauses in the Acts of Reconstruction, this particular section was...