Texasâ??s mobilization for the Civil War represented a cavalry-centric and monumental societal effort as almost 60,000 Lone Star horsemen fought across battlefields ranging from the deserts of New Mexico to the forests of the Carolinas. Simultaneously confronted with invasion by the Union Army and raiding by Amerindians, the frontier polity embraced the two-tiered strategic posture that reflected its traditional approach to mounted arms warfare, which had previously characterized its struggles in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War.
While the Lone Star State deployed approximately 92 numbered regiments for Napoleonic operations of mass, scale, and centralization in Confederate-Union engagements, the embattled society concurrently fielded a series mounted ranger corps to protect home territory from raiding by both Natives and partisan Unionists. This manner of compound warfare compelled Texas to negotiate a scope and diversity of strategic challenges which no other American state, Confederate or Union, faced during the rebellion.
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