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After Appomattox : military occupation and the ends of war / Gregory P. Downs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downs, Gregory P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil-military relations--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Freedmen--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Military occupation--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Social conflict--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Occupied territories.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Southern States--Social aspects.
- Military occupation--History--19th century--Southern States.
- Military occupation.
- Civil-military relations--History--19th century--Southern States.
- Civil-military relations.
- Freed persons--History--19th century--Southern States.
- Freed persons.
- Social conflict.
- Southern States.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Peace.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--1865-1950.
- Local Subjects:
- Civil-military relations--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Freedmen--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Military occupation--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Social conflict--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Occupied territories.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Sources
- Introduction. The War That Could Not End
- 1. After Surrender
- 2. Emancipation at Gunpoint
- 3. The Challenge of Civil Government
- 4. Authority without Arms
- 5. The War in Washington
- 6. A False Peace
- 7. Enfranchisement by Martial Law
- 8. Between Bullets and Ballots
- 9. The Perils of Peace
- Conclusion. A Government without Force
- Appendixes
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674426160
- 0674426169
- 9780674426146
- 0674426142
- OCLC:
- 908146066
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