However, his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his own life and brought disaster for Texas during the Civil War. Louis Trezevant Wigfall was born was born on his father’s large estate in ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Civil War ... and Texas) are trying to besiege the capital and force the President of the United States (Nick Offerman) to surrender.

Leader of the fabled Texas Brigade ... which he was forced to surrender. A businessman after the war, Hood died nearly penniless, although his memoirs later proved extremely popular.

The first of these came in the form of the 14th Amendment, a more detailed set of restrictions on the states than either of the other Civil War amendments ... 14th Amendment. Texas had rejected the ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split ... 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army.

This amendment was first introduced in the U.S. Senate early in 1864, when the war was still under way ... minimum of twenty-seven of the thirty-six states on December 6, 1865. Texas did not formally ...