Here is an excerpt from Judge Stevens' book:
One of the prisoners at Ft. Delaware, (Judge) John W. Stevens, Co. K, 5th Texas Infantry, wrote a book in 1902 and said, “No one but my own company men knew him, and we always addressed him as Sam and never as captain. I fed him a stolen ration every night. I had known him from boyhood---a brave and gallant man”.
He is talking about Captain Sam A. Willson of Co. F, 1st TX Inf. who was a contemporary of Captain Ike Turner, Co. K, 5th TX Inf. Sam was captured on July 3rd and disguised as a private, was sent to Ft. Delaware with John Stevens rather than Johnson Island. He made a successful escape between July 7-July 14th and crossed enemy lines to return to his unit in Virginia. Because if the exact date had been known....the escape would not have been successful.
Sam Willson was a judge in Tyler County prior to the War and afterwards in Woodville and Rusk. He was chosen by Gov. Richard Coke to succeed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and later elected to the position. He helped to codify the current Texas Constitution, adopted in 1876.
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/1876index.html
If you study the preamble and Bill of Rights, you can clearly see the re-affirmation of States Rights.
Incidently, my Uncle Sam left his position as District Judge in Woodville in 1868 because he was unwilling and unable to take the Loyalty Oath, which he deemed to be un-Constitutional.
And you may be interesting in joining the Hood's Texas Brigade Association--Reactivated. Check out the website.
http://www.hoodstexasbrigade.org/
Good luck with your research.