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This is a superb book. Beautifully written and deeply researched it sheds new light on who the men of the Texas brigade were, their motivation to fight, why they were one of the elite units of the Army of Northern Virginia, and how their war experience shaped the post war lives of the survivors. This is Civil War unit history at its best.--D. Scott Hartwig, author of To Antietam Creek Ural's rich and wonderfully textured account of Hood's Brigade brings to life the men who fought in one of the war's most celebrated units. But more than that, this compelling narrative weaves gracefully back and forth between the battlefield and Texas home front, offering a richer, more complex portrait of a society at war.--Caroline E. Janney, author of Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation Hood's Texas Brigade gives us a refreshing new template for the study of Civil War units. Its focus on the brigade as a community of citizen-soldiers in the context of combat yields the best of both social and military history. Deeply researched and lucidly written, Susannah Ural's work on the Texans in Lee's army provides a model for the way military organizations should be analyzed.--A. Wilson Greene, author of A Campaign of Giants: The Petersburg Campaign from the Crossing of the James through the Battle of the Crater Susannah J. Ural's Hood's Texas Brigade perceptively explores one of the most successful combat units in the Civil War. Tracking their lauded military service, as well as their backgrounds and beliefs, Ural creates a nuanced portrait of soldiers and the families that sustained them. These southerners, unabashedly committed to slavery and the Confederate cause, displayed little doubt or trepidation about the war or its cost. Confederate defeat left them defiant but no less determined in their beliefs. Ural's compelling account provides fresh insight into the Confederate military experience and its lasting legacy.--Lesley J. Gordon, author of A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War

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Susannah J. Ural is professor of history and codirector of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. She is the author of Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It and The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865.

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