theSOUTH tx RENEGADES
BY MARCUS HAYNES 3PERIOD
SOUTH TEXAS RENEGADES
WEST TEXAS WASNOT THE ONLY AREA WITH CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE.RENEGADES OR OUTLAWS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE RIO GRANDE,THE WERE ROBBING AND RAIDING TOWNS AND SETTLEMENT.THE RENEGADES PUT FEAR IN MANY TEXAS AND MEXICAN AMERICANS
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OTHER PROBLEM THEY HADE WERE GETTING CONTROL OVERTHE RANCHERS BECAUSE THE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE LAW AND ORDER TO EXPAND THEIR LAND.MANY POOR PEOPLE LIKE THE MEXICANS LOST THIER LAND SO IT WAS HARD TO FIND HOW OWNED THE CATTLE.THE TEXAS RANGERS WERE SOMETIMES SENT TO ESTABLISH PEACE .
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JUAN N CORTINA WAS ONE HOW CLASHED WITH THE AUTHORITYS HE TOKE THE ROLE OF PROTECTING THE MEXIACANS
ADOPHLE HOPPE
Adolph Hoppe’s great-grandson, Dwayne Hoppe, understood from family tradition that Adolph was a pacifist who took seriously his oath of allegiance to the United States. His great-great-granddaughter, Becky McNamara, put Adolph’s pro-Union views in historical perspective. In the year that Hoppe migrated to Texas, Germany, like all of Europe, was in the midst of a deep economic depression that resulted in revolutions throughout the continent in 1848. “One of the unfulfilled dreams of these [Texas] pioneers,” wrote McNamara, “had been a unified Germany, and this dream had been part of what had led them TO AMERICA.
Excerpt from Eli Rushing’s Union pension file
At war’s end Martha Rushing Walters faced life as a 21-year-old widow with two children. Her grandfather, who in late 1862 had been appointed to the thankless and hazardous post of Provost Marshall of Jones County, left for Texas before the end of the war. Her mother Samantha had lost her second husband in the war and was now managing a household with four children, ages nine through fifteen. The carnage of the war had affected a significant portion of the adult male population. If widows hoped to remarry and thereby gain some measure of security for themselves and their children, their choice of men was limited. The men who survived the war unscathed were often those who had been either too old or too young to serve as combatants. May-December marriages, certainly not unheard of in the antebellum Piney Woods, became much more common in the years following the war.
(Montage courtesy of Sarah Steinbock-Pratt)
began this blog in 2008 as an extension of my website, Renegade South: The Literary Works of Victoria Bynum, www.renegadesouth.com. As a historian who began digging into records and documents about ordinary and extraordinary people some thirty years ago, I’ve long wanted to share the history of those people with a broader audience. Whether you are a historian or someone who just likes history, this blog was created with you in mind.
As the blog’s title, Renegade South, suggests, I study southern dissenters of the nineteenth century. Several kinds of renegades pass through the pages of my books and articles: Civil War Unionists and outlaws, multiracial people, unruly women, and political and religious nonconformists.My books, The Free State of Jones, Unruly Women, and The Long Shadow of the Civil War highlight such folks in the Mississippi Piney