When the war was over : the failure of self-reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867 / Dan T. Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Dan T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Southern States--History--1865-1877.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

Louisiana pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the returning foot soldiers of the defeated army, hungry and without hope, raided the already impoverished countryside for food and clothing. In the wake of the devastation that followed surrender, even some of the most virulent Yankee-haters found themselves relieved as the Union army began to bring a

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter I: Social Disorder and Violence in the Land of the Vanquished; Chapter II: Self-Reconstruction Begins: The Failure of Strait-Sect Unionism; Chapter III: Southern Realism and Southern Honor: The Limits of Self-Reconstruction; Chapter IV: Uncertain Prophets in the Land of the Vanquished; Chapter V: The Proslavery Argument in a World Without Slavery; Chapter VI: Self-Reconstruction: The Final Act; Chapter VII: Political Alternatives in the Land of Fog and Confusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Winner of the Jules F. Landry Award for 1984

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807151167

0807151165

9780807151150

0807151157