Reply #78: Yes, approval of secession was by no means [View All]

[Yupster]

universal in Texas.

At the secession convention, Governor Houston was clearly on the union side, and the most vocal anti-secession delegate was state senator James Throckmorton. The secession vote passed 166-8 though and Throckmorton later became a Confederate general.

Houston insisted on a vote of the people to leave the union as the people voted to join it in 1845. The vote was held and Texas voted 46,153 to leave and 14,747 to stay. Houston had slowed the process down enough to make Texas the last of the seven states to leave though. There wouldn't be any others until Lincoln called up the militia after Fort Sumpter and then Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas left bringing the total to eleven states.

Kentucky and Missouri are mirky as they had congressmen in the US and Confederate congresses during the war.