(Disunion) As the reality of the war and the grip of the Union blockade settled upon the South, two brothers who had been among the most successful plantation owners in Texas decided to diversify their holdings — by taking up the dicey new business of blockade-running.
Compared to other Deep South states, Texas has comparatively few plantations standing as historical beacons of the Civil War. Robert Mills and his younger brother, David, epitomized the enormous wealth that slavery and plantation agriculture had brought to the southeastern corner of Texas in the few decades before the Civil War. Most of Texas knew little firsthand about slavery and nothing about plantation farming; the land was too arid to support it. Continued
Photo: Rebel look-out, Bolivar Point (Galveston), Texas (Library of Congress)
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