100,000 Confederate Texans say otherwise. Hood's Texans suffered tremendously at Franklin and Sharpspburg - that was about as brutal as you can get. Franklin ended with six Confederate generals killed.
The Union did not burn a trail through Austin, but there were port conflicts on the Gulf and fighting in the Southwest Mexican border to stop the trade with Mexico. The big armies did not come to Texas, but there was fighting and hardship for resources.
Tell me Galveston is Western, for crying out loud.
Give me Texans in a fight any day of the week!