The Civil War Confiscation Acts : failing to reconstruct the South / John Syrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Syrett, John, 1942-

Series:

Reconstructing America (Series) ; no. 10.

Reconstructing America, 1523-4606 ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Confiscations and contributions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 282 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an account of two significant laws passed during the US Civil War, The Confiscation Acts (1861-62). It examines the political contexts, especially the debates in Congress, and how the failure of the Confiscation Acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction afterwards.

Contents:

The First Confiscation Act

The Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents

The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result

Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and bates

Early military confiscation

Rules of war and later military confiscation

The Treasury's part in confiscation

The politics of confiscation

Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation

Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures

Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4085-1

0-8232-4758-9

0-8232-2491-0

1-4294-7887-X

OCLC:

156268037