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The Devil's Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas

by James M. Smallwood, Kenneth W. Howell and Carol C. Taylor
University of North Texas Press, 2007
Paper: 978-1-57441-772-2 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-782-1
Library of Congress Classification F391.B5S53 2007

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Dedication
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction 
    • The Devil Holds High Carnival in Texas
    • Chapter 1 
    • The Makings of a Killer
    • Chapter 2 
    • The World Turned Upside Down
    • Chapter 3 
    • Initiating a Reign of Terror
    • Chapter 4 
    • Living in Pandemonium Itself
    • Chapter 5 
    • Every Loyal Man in the State May Fall, May-July, 1868
    • Chapter 6 
    • The New Rebellion, August, 1868
    • Chapter 7 
    • The Devil be Damned, September, 1868
    • Chapter 8 
    • In a State Worse than War, October-December 1868
    • Chapter 9 
    • Send All of Them to Hell, January-February, 1869
    • Chapter 10 
    • Killing the Bravest Man in the South, March-April, 1869
    • After Word
    • End Notes
    • Appendices
      • Appendix 1 
      • Major General George A. Custer's congressional testimony about affairs in Eastern Texas
      • Appendix 2 
      • Mrs. L. E. Potts written testimony about affairs in Northeast Texas
      • Appendix 3 
      • Report on Violence delivered to the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869
      • Appendix 4 
      • Charles Rand's report on the death of Ben Griffin
      • Appendix 5 
      • General J. J. Reynolds orders to Captain Adna Chaffee
    • Bibliography
    • Index
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