WI: Robert E Lee fought in Texas?

During the succession crisis, General Twiggs was in command of the Department of Texas and surrendered his 2,600 soldiers under his command and the 1,200 mile stretch of army posts and forts scattered along the frontier on February the 16th. However, a few months earlier, Robert E Lee was in command of the Department of Texas while Twiggs was on leave. If the secession crisis had come to a head when Lee was in command, or if Twiggs return had been delayed past mid-winter, how would Lee would have reacted whenever he was demanded to surrender?

This is before Virginia had seceded so do you think Lee would have refused the order and the first shots would be in San Antonio instead of Fort Sumter? Could he have kept a foothold in the Gulf like the War Department expected of Twiggs?
What effects would this have on the up-coming war? Would this change how the crisis played out?
 
Turtledove wrote a story about this - Lee defends the fort against Texan CSA forces before negotiating safe passage for he and his men. He fights for the USA in the war, having become a hero of sorts in the Union, on the condition he fights in the West, and never be asked to take up arms against Virginia.
 
I would also add that the secession of West Virginia from Virginia allows Lee to argue that by fighting for the Union he is still fighting on the side of Virginians.
 
I would also add that the secession of West Virginia from Virginia allows Lee to argue that by fighting for the Union he is still fighting on the side of Virginians.
In principle, sure. In practice, no one took the provisional Virginia government seriously. To the West Virginians it was just an excuse to get out from under the thumb of the Eastern elites (of whom Lee was certainly one).
 
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