Talk:Sam Houston

Predictably I take issue with his description as a Confederate citizen. The CSA never existed except in the imaginations of people who wanted it to. And Houston didn't want it to. I confess that the details in the question I'm about to raise are far too fine for my limited knowledge of and interest in Houston to register, but if he was a unionist before secession, and during secession (he resigned in protest, no?) wouldn't that indicate that he declined to participate in the collective hallucination of Confederate citizenship? I can see describing people like Lee and Davis Confederate citizens, because they believed all that secessionist horseshit, but in Houston's case it seems his CS citizenship existed neither in his own subjective interpretation nor in objective reality. So if something is neither demonstrably true by an outside agent nor believed to be true by the parties involved, is it appropriate to list as a matter of fact?

Unless of course, unknown to me, he resigned because he would have no active part in Confederate "government" but privately accepted the decision of the people who made the decision. Turtle Fan 04:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)