After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War

The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871-not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation pos...

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Main Author: Downs, Gregory P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2015]
Edition:Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
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Summary:The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871-not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (330 Seiten) 6 halftones, 9 maps, 2 graphs, 7 tables
ISBN:9780674426146
DOI:10.4159/9780674426146

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