moneyhon2013

@InCollection{ moneyhon2013,
	author = {Carl H. Moneyhon},
	title = {Landholding in {Brazos County, Texas}: Frontier, War, and {R}econstruction},
	pages = {131-155},
	crossref = {mccaslinetal2013},
	year = 2013,
}

p. 145: Secession “had the potential for producing revolutionary changes in the country, although few probably understood that possibility at the time. In fact, as the war years passed, many local residents may have little perceived the war’s impact. The one exception would be the families of those who departed for service.”

p. 146: “Tax records from 1865 strengthen the argument that while individual soldiers and their families may have suffered, the war little affected the county. Rather than being set back, Brazos County actually grew during the war years,” as did the landed elite.

p. 152: “If one were to look only at the period 1860 to 1874 the decline in the size of landholdings might suggest that the war had a major effect on land ownership in the country, but looking at the whole era the steady decline in the size of landholdings shows that trend to have been in place throughout the antebellum years as well. At least in this frontier county in Texas, the end of large land holdings simply marked the passage of the community from a stock raising economy to one centered more on farming. War and Reconstruction may have had little to do with this change.”