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The Civil War and Reconstruction

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Main Authors: Randall, J. G. 1881-1953., Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Heath [1961]
Edition:2d ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • A growing nation
  • The old south
  • Slavery
  • Wedges of separation
  • A house divided
  • Secession of the lower south
  • Buchanan's dilemma
  • Lincoln and the appeal to arms
  • The plight of the upper south
  • The campaigns : earlier phases
  • The Virginia front
  • The great border
  • Problems of the Confederacy
  • Behind the southern lines
  • Men and measures
  • The government and the citizen
  • The raising of the army
  • Army administration
  • The war treasury
  • The American question abroad
  • Slavery and the war
  • Lincoln and emancipation
  • The middle phase : Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chattanooga
  • Military campaigns of 1864
  • The naval war
  • Wartime politics to 1864
  • Peace movements and the election of 1864
  • The north in wartime
  • The failure of cotton diplomacy
  • Collapse of the Confederacy : end of the war
  • Presidential reconstruction
  • Johnson and the radicals
  • THe critical year
  • The fabric of reconstruction legislation
  • The president impeached
  • Black reconstruction
  • Postwar politics and constitutional change
  • The Grant era
  • The end of reconstruction.

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