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viii List of Maps 1. Robertson County, circa 1870. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 2. Range of Influence of the Ben Brown Gang, 1864—1870. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 3. Counties in the Lower Brazos River Valley. . . . . . . . . . . 394 List of Illustrations 1. “Death at the Polls, and Free from ‘Federal Interference’” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2. The Freedmen’s Bureau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3. Gen. Charles Griffin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 4. Maj. Gen. David S. Stanley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 5. Col. Thomas E. Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 6. “One Thousand Dollars Reward!” (Handbill for arrest of B. F. Hammond), Headquarters Post of Bryan, August 11, 1869, signed by Thomas H. Norton . . . . . . . 169 7. Edmund J. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 8. “Is this a republican form of government? Is this protecting life, liberty, or prosperity? Is this the equal protection of the laws”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 9. Roger Q. Mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 10. Gen. Gordon Granger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 11. Will Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 12. Pauline Grice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 13. Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 14. Visit of the Ku-Klux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 15. Gov. James Webb Throckmorton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 16. Confederate Veterans Monument Dedication, Lavaca, County, Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 ...

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