Sam Houston refused to take the loyalty oath to the Confederacy even though it cost him his governorship. He retired to his plantation and died a couple of years later.Is it an embarrassment to red-blooded Texans?
Sam Houston's thoughts on secession:
According to historian Randolph Campbell:
Houston did everything possible to prevent secession and war, but his first loyalty was to Texas—and the South. Houston refused offers of troops from the United States to keep Texas in the Union and announced on 10 May 1861 that he would stand with the Confederacy in its war effort
Hardly an endorsement of secession.
Of himself, he had said: "I wish no prouder epitaph to mark the board or slab that may lie on my tomb than this: 'He loved his country, he was a patriot; he was devoted to the Union.'"
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