Here is what happened to my family in East Texas. They did not keep their slaves...the white and black people were living together for generations and trying to survive. Reconstruction was around the bend.

After the Civil War a skirmish known locally as the battle of Billiams Creek occurred when federal authorities indicted six residents for not releasing their slaves and sent soldiers to arrest them. The Billiams Creek men shot all the federal soldiers from ambush and buried them, and their bodies are said never to have been found.

From the Handbook of Texas.