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Book SynopsisAn examination of events that still impact upon Texas and the South.
Trade ReviewRamsdell, who wrote the book in 1910, had a closer vantage point in time from which to view reconstruction. A study of the work today is more than justifiable. * San Antonio Light *
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I. The Secession Movement
- Chapter II. Texas During the War
- Chapter III. The Break-Up
- 1. Decline and Collapse of Confederate Military Power
- 2. Confusion about Cotton
- 3. The Negro Question and Labor Conditions
- Part I—Presidential Reconstruction
- Chapter IV. The State Under Provisional Government
- 1. Inauguration of the New Régime
- 2. Loyalty and Disloyalty in the State
- 3. The Freedmen and the Freedmen’s Bureau
- 4. Relations of the Civil and the Military Authorities
- Chapter V. The Constitutional Convention of 1866
- Chapter VI. The Restoration of State Government
- 1. The State Elections of 1866
- 2. Inauguration of the New Government
- 3. The Eleventh Legislature
- 4. Problems and Policies of Throckmorton’s Administration
- Part II—Congressional Reconstruction
- Chapter VII. The Undoing of Civil Government
- 1. The Reconstruction Acts
- 2. The Provisional State Government and the Military Commanders
- Chapter VIII. Radical-Military Rule
- 1. Radical Politics and Factions
- 2. Removal of Sheridan; Reversal of Military Policy by Hancock
- Chapter IX. The Reconstruction Convention of 1868–1869
- 1. First Session
- 2. Conditions during the Recess; Presidential Election
- 3. Second Session
- Chapter X. The Campaign and Election of 1869
- 1. The Appeal to Congress
- 2. The Formation of Tickets
- 3. The Canvass: Radicals Supported by Grant
- 4. The Election
- Chapter XI. The Final Act of Reconstruction
- Epilogue
- Chapter XII. Radical Rule and Its Overthrow
- 1. Policies and Legislation
- 2. Growth of the Opposition
- 3. Election of 1873 and the End
- Bibliography
- Index
