Violence in the Hill Country : the Texas frontier in the Civil War era /
The nineteenth-century Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. And as in many borderlands, it was a place marked by violence, as one set of peopl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ;
no. 24. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Texas Hill Country on the eve of the Civil War
- The Hill Country in antebellum politics and the secession crisis
- From secession to the Nueces River
- Indians, inflation, and bushwhackers
- Civil War and political violence
- Reconciliation and the incorporation of the Texas Frontier
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Indian raiding deaths during the Civil War
- Appendix B. Casualties of Civil War violence, 1862
- 1865
- Appendix C. Indian raiding deaths after the Civil War.