Well, let's play six degrees of separation.....which we won't even need, because:
Sam Houston is governor during the Secession vote and resigns because he's a Unionist and can't go against his country (reverse R.E. Lee philosophy)...and anyway, he's already predicted the Confederates will lose. (Lesson #1--don't argue with Sam)
Bowie is a slave smuggler.
Slavery is an issue in the Texas Revolution, although not quite as much of one as some people think. This really IS about representation.
Ben McCulloch (yeah, you guys knew I'd bring HIM up!).....goes to Texas to support Crockett in the Alamo, gets measles (he's only 16) and thankfully misses THAT battle; mans one of the Twin Sisters at San Jacinto; fights in the Mexican War, saves Davis' bacon through some excellent hair-raising scouting--and earns Davis' contempt as a Texian ruffian; leads the Confederate forces in taking San Antonio from Twiggs (not a terribly difficult situation, but he didn't know that coming in
); and of course, there's his frustrating career as a general in the Trans-Miss.....but we know about that.....
Ah...the South Carolina connection--Travis, Fannin
nah disagree
, Bonham.......and Wigfall
Need I say more? (I have to admit, Edward Burleson was from South Carolina, too, and I claim kinship with him).
Without the Revolution, you don't have the Mexican War, Manifest Destiny (quite as successfully, anyhow) and western Expansion of the Cotton States, and the resulting compromises that ultimately end up in Civil War.
Quite a load to lay at the feet of Father Hidalgo and Moses Austin, ain't it?