Free Franklin lecture focuses on Civil War

Though the two states have been at odds with each other sometimes, Texas soldiers fought against Union troops in Louisiana during the Civil War.

Donald Frazier, a professor of history at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas, will deliver a lecture at the Young-Sanders Center for the Study of the War Between the States in Louisiana (701 Teche Drive in Franklin) about the Texas troops who fought as part of the Confederacy’s Department of the Trans-Mississippi. The lecture, free to the public, will take place on Saturday, Aug. 9, at 1:30 p.m.

The use of black troops by the Union Army in Louisiana will also be covered.

Frazier has written three books on the Civil War (“Blood and Treasure,” “Cottonclads” and “Fire in the Cane Field”) and helped to develop three museums, a Mexican War battlefield site and Civil War heritage trails.