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The subject of the War Between the States, as it pertained to Jackson County, Texas, and the story of the Confederacy, and its quest for independence, was one which provided ample grist from which a romance writer might glean the bountiful harvest of an inspired story. The conflict itself was not over emancipation of the slaves, though that event was a result of the war, but over different systems of economy: one commercial and industrial, the other largely agricultural. America had become two peoples, one seeking dominion over all peoples and all things, the other contented with the blessings bestowed by the good earth. Though the two peoples were joined by a written constitution, a numerical majority of one section imposed protective tariffs on the imports of the other. Tariffs are a bounty to one, a burden to the other. Tariffs have the effect of levying an unequal, and therefore unconstitutional, tax on the consumer. It is scarcely necessary to add that, although the romance is entirely imaginary, the author has naturally drawn upon his experiences and observations during the war, both in Jackson County, Texas, and while marching with his regiment, the Second Texas Infantry, C.S.A., in Tennessee and Mississippi.

Continuing the argument set forth in the Life of General Lee for Children, we can advance primary education and impress lessons of morality upon children in no better way than to place before them the careers of our great men, I now give, in simple words, the Life of General Thomas J. Jackson.In this brief sketch of our great Southern hero, I have endeavored to portray, amid the blaze of his matchless military genius, the unchanging rectitude of his conduct, the stern will-power by which he conquered all difficulties, his firm belief in an overruling Providence, and his entire submission to the Divine Will. These traits of character were the cornerstones upon which he reared the edifice of his greatness, and upon which the young people of our day will do well to build.

A study of the ocean operations of the Confederate Navy will introduce you to issues and context not considered in land operations. The global reach of the Confederate Navy, and its success in completely reducing the maritime merchant shipping of the United States of America is a story not often told. The daring of Confederate naval commanders easily match the audacity of Generals Stuart, Forrest, and Morgan.But there are other stories; the exploitation of new technologies, the success of the South's blockade runners, and the complexities of international relations are all interesting aspects of the story. And there is the successful combined arms offensive operations to re-take the South's largest port west of the Mississippi, Galveston, which demonstrates Southern ingenuity. Lastly there are the stories of the ironclads, some operating as squadrons at Charleston, Mobile and Richmond.The story of the men who developed naval strategy, and built and served in the Confederate States Navy, (C.S.N.) is as inspirational as that of their brothers who brought glory to the Confederacy on thousands of battlefields. Like the land campaigns, there are endless stories of heroism, ingenuity, imagination, leadership and sacrifice connected with the Confederate Navy. In addition, the South made every effort to use technologies in an attempt to even the odds on the world's oceans and America's rivers. The story demonstrates a southern will to meet the challenges of fighting an enemy superior in material resources, with innovation, guile, courage and determination.