The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

History

Crouch, Barry A.

Brice, Donaly E.

Americas

University of Texas Press

Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters.

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American Texans. The volume also contains Crouch's seminal review of Reconstruction historiography, "Unmanacling Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year Perspective." The introductory pieces by Arnoldo De Leon and Larry Madaras recapitulate Barry Crouch's scholarly career and pay tribute to his stature in the field of Reconstruction history.

The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack And Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, And Culture)

In the tumultuous years following the Civil War, violence and lawlessness plagued the state of Texas, often overwhelming the ability of local law enforcement to maintain order. In response, Reconstruction-era governor Edmund J. Davis created a statewide police force that could be mobilized whenever and wherever local authorities were unable or unwilling to control lawlessness. During its three years (1870–1873) of existence, however, the Texas State Police was reviled as an arm of the Radical Republican party and widely condemned for being oppressive, arrogant, staffed with criminals and African Americans, and expensive to maintain, as well as for enforcing the new and unpopular laws that protected the rights of freed slaves.
Drawing extensively on the wealth of previously untouched records in the Texas State Archives, as well as other contemporary sources, Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice here offer the first major objective assessment of the Texas State Police and its role in maintaining law and order in Reconstruction Texas. Examining the activities of the force throughout its tenure and across the state, the authors find that the Texas State Police actually did much to solve the problem of violence in a largely lawless state. While acknowledging that much of the criticism the agency received was merited, the authors make a convincing case that the state police performed many of the same duties that the Texas Rangers later assumed and fulfilled the same need for a mobile, statewide law enforcement agency.

Historians have detailed the exploits of desperadoes and outlaws in the latter part of the 19th century, those who emerged immediately after the Civil War have been overlooked. These outlaws, who were most active in the tri-state area of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, harassed the Union army and Freedmen's Bureau agents and terrorized the black population. Considered the most notorious was, Cullen Montgomery Baker. In this biography, the authors researched local folklore, legend, and fact to provide an accurate account of the southern desperado, whose strong resentment towards the North created a coined New Rebellion that led rise to many outlaw gangs including indirectly assisting in the formation of the Ku Klux Klan.

Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of Deaf Americans.

A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America

Van Cleve, John Vickrey

Gallaudet University Press

In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the Lee-Peacock violence has been placed squarely within the Lost Cause mythology. This account sets the record straight. For Bob Lee, a Confederate veteran, the new phase of the war began when he refused to release his slaves. When Federal officials came to his farm in July to enforce emancipation, he fought back and finally fled as a fugitive. In the relatively short time left to his life, he claimed personally to have killed at least forty people—civilian and military, Unionists and freedmen. Peacock, a dedicated leader of the Unionist efforts, became his primary target and chief foe. Both men eventually died at the hands of each other’s supporters. From previously untapped sources in the National Archives and other records, the authors have tracked down the details of the Corners violence and the larger issues it reflected, adding to the reinterpretation of Reconstruction history and rescuing from myth events that shaped the following century of Southern politics.

Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Volume 6) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Smallwood, James M.

Peacock, Larry

Texas A&M University Press

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The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans

The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack And Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, And Culture)

The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans

The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado

A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America

Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Volume 6) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)