Tag: forget the alamo

Jeff Davis Was Trying To Go To Texas

.Reading time 8 minutes.

JEFF DAVIS WAS TRYING TO GO TO TEXAS Jeff Davis, he was trying to go to Texas.Thought that he could find some Rebels there.Robert Lee already had surrendered.Loss lay heavy in the Southern air.He tried to sneak across, from down in GeorgiaWhile all the rest, they fled to anywhere.But Jeff Davis, he was trying to […]

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Texas Independence Day

.Reading time 9 minutes.

Today is Texas Independence Day. As a student at UT Austin, I remember celebrating this day with all the pride I could muster.Today, years later, I’m thinking about what I didn’t know then, what I do know now, and the significance to all of us Texans today. If like me, you took “Texas History” in […]

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