The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War

Published by Fordham University Press 2010

The Great Task Remaining Before Us

Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War

Edited by: Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller

In the series Reconstructing America

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292981

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Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war’s end. In doing so, it shows that “the war” did not actually end with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln’s assassination in Washington. As the contributors show, major issues remained, including defining “freedom”; rebuilding the South; integrating women and blacks into postwar society, culture, and polities; deciding the place of the military in public life; demobilizing or redeploying soldiers; organizing a new party system; and determining the scope and meanings of “union.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction: An Unfinished War G. Ward Hubbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction Derek W. Frisby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 ‘‘I Wanted a Gun’’: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri Aaron Astor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3 ‘‘The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky’’: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865–1868 Anne E. Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4 The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama’s Postwar Home Front Margaret M. Storey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5 ‘‘A New Field of Labor’’: Antislavery Women, Freedmen’s Aid, and Political Power Carol Faulkner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
6 ‘‘Objects of Humanity’’: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia Denise E. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7 Racial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans’s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation Justin A. Nystrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
8 ‘‘My Children on the Field’’: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause Rod Andrew Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
9 Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact Jason Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
10 Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South Carole Emberton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
11 Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party Michael Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 200

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823292981