{"product_id":"texan-in-blue-captain-francis-asbury-vaughan-of-the-first-texas-cavalry-usa-9781625110909","title":"Texan in Blue: Captain Francis Asbury Vaughan of the First Texas Cavalry, USA","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard B. McCaslin | J. Wayne Stewart\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Texas State Historical Assn\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Asbury Vaughan left his home in Guadalupe County, Texas on July 4, 1862, to fight in the Civil War. But he did not join a Confederate unit. Unlike twenty-one of his brothers and cousins, and most white male Texans who fought in that conflict, he became a captain in the First Texas Cavalry, USA, the best-known Union outfit from the Lone Star State. Fortunately for historians, he recorded some of his wartime experiences in what he called a memorandum, which remains in the possession of his descendants along with other treasured records concerning him and his relatives. These documents are the foundation for this book, which provides a unique insight into the ideals and actions of a Texan who not only served for three years as a Union officer but afterward became a Republican for the remaining three decades of his life in Texas. As a Texan in blue, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1868, a federal appointee and elected local official several times over, and a successful businessman and father, Vaughan established a legacy that offers useful perspectives not only on him, but on the events that surrounded and involved him. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas State Historical Assn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779060547735,"sku":"9781625110909","price":3130.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781625110909.webp?v=1778033121","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/texan-in-blue-captain-francis-asbury-vaughan-of-the-first-texas-cavalry-usa-9781625110909","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}