| Edition |
Second edition, revised with enlarged bibliography. |
| Description |
xiv, 866 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [703]-834. |
| 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 fabric of reconstruction legislation -- The president impeached -- Black reconstruction -- Postwar politics and constitutional change -- The Grant era -- The end of reconstruction. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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| Added Author |
Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009, author.
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