After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War

After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
ISBN-10
0674743989
ISBN-13
9780674743984
Category
History
Pages
353
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Gregory P. Downs

Description

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.

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