University of Texas Press, 1970 eISBN: 978-0-292-76810-9 | Paper: 978-0-292-70031-4 Library of Congress Classification F391.R18 1970 Dewey Decimal Classification 976.406
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A reprint of the 1910 study, Reconstruction in Texas examines the events that still impact upon Texas and the South.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Charles William Ramsdell (1877–1942) taught history at the University of Texas at Austin.
REVIEWS
Ramsdell, 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
