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.