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Francis 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.

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Richard B. McCaslin is Director of Publications for the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) after retiring as the TSHA Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, eight of which earned awards. He has also published more than two dozen journal articles and book chapters, several of which have also won awards. A TSHA Fellow, he has commendations from the Civil War Round Tables in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Shreveport for his academic work.J. Wayne Stewart is a great-great-grandson of Francis Asbury Vaughan. A native Texan, he enjoyed a distinguished career as a corporate executive in the high-tech industry, then became an avid family historian after his retirement. He self-published Generations of Texas: Ten Generations of Texas Family History in 2021, which expanded upon information provided in a book written by Jeff Stewart, his father, entitled Yesteryear (2002), and Stewart's own first history of his ancestors, Yesteryear: The Next Generation (2016). He is currently drawing upon his management experience to write and publish yet another book.

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