• 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