Major Problems in Civil War & Reconstruction

by Perman, Michael; Paterson, Thomas G.

• ISBN13: 9780395868492
• ISBN10: 0395868491
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-20
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This best-selling title, designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, covers the Civil War's entire chronological span with a series of documents and essays.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
The North and South Compared	1	(30)
Documents	2	(8)
Lydia Maria Child Describes How Slavery Harms the South, 1833	2	(1)
Frederick Law Olmsted Observes Southern Lassitude, 1854	3	(1)
Hinton Rowan Helper Exposes Southern Economic Backwardness, 1857	4	(1)
Frederick Law Olmsted Criticizes the South's Lack of Material Progress, 1861	5	(1)
James Henry Hammond Claims Southern Cultural Superiority, 1845	6	(2)
George Fitzhugh Praises Southern Society, 1854	8	(1)
J. D. B. DeBow Explains Why Nonslaveholders Should Support Slavery, 1860	9	(1)
Essays	10	(21)
The Similarities between the Antebellum North and South	11	(10)
Edward Pessen
The Differences between the Antebellum North and South	21	(10)
James M. McPherson
Sectional Politics in the 1850s	31	(33)
Documents	32	(8)
Independent Democrats Protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act, January 1854	32	(2)
Senator Stephen Douglas Explains the Objectives of His Bill, February 1854	34	(1)
Senator Charles Summer of Massachusetts Ridicules the Southern Gentry, May 1856	35	(1)
Congressman Thomas S. Bocock of Virginia Defends Preston Brooks, July 1856	36	(2)
Senator William H. Seward of New York Warns of an Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858	38	(1)
Senator Albert G. Brown of Mississippi Renounces the Protection of the Union, December 1859	39	(1)
Essays	40	(24)
The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Rise of the Republican Party	41	(11)
William E. Gienapp
Kansas, Republicanism, and the Crisis of the Union	52	(12)
Don E. Fehrenbacher
The Secession Crisis	64	(25)
Documents	64	(7)
President-Elect Lincoln Explains What Is at Stake, December 1860	65	(1)
Congressman John A. Gilmer of North Carolina Urges Delay and Conciliation, March 1861	66	(1)
Secretary of State William H. Seward Advises Restraint, March 1861	67	(2)
Former Congressman Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia Advises against Secession, November 1860	69	(1)
Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia Defends His Own and His State's Honor, November 1860	70	(1)
The Raleigh North Carolina Standard Weighs Honor and Secession, December 1860	71	(1)
Essays	71	(18)
Lincoln and the Secession Crisis	72	(8)
Kenneth M. Stampp
Honor and Secession	80	(9)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Fighting the War: The Generals	89	(35)
Documents	92	(12)
General George B. McClellan Gives a Lesson in Grand Strategy, July 1862	92	(2)
General Robert E. Lee Takes the Offensive, September 1862	94	(1)
Assesses Lee and McClellan at Antietam, September 1862	95	(2)
General E. Porter Alexander
General Alexander Later Criticizes the Confederacy's Conduct of the War, c. 1900	97	(1)
Acknowledges That the War Has Changed Course, March 1863	98	(1)
General Henry W. Halleck
The Union Army Redefines the Rules of War: Lieber's Code, May 1863	99	(2)
General William T. Sherman Explains How the War Has Changed, September 1864	101	(2)
General Ulysses S. Grant Reports His Assignment Accomplished, July 1865	103	(1)
Essays	104	(20)
The Maryland Campaign in Perspective	104	(8)
Gray W. Gallagher
Gestures of Mercy, Pillars of Fire	112	(12)
Mark Grimsley
Fighting the War: The Soldiers	124	(32)
Documents	125	(9)
Describes His First Experience with Combat, July 1861	126	(1)
Eugene Blackford
Acknowledges the Persistence of Fear (Undated)	127	(1)
John Dooley
Assesses the Contribution of His Family and Community to the War, July 1862	127	(2)
Charles Harvey Brewster
Describes His Reaction to Antietam and to Possible Emancipation, September 1862	129	(1)
Robert Gould Shaw
Discusses Morale among the Soldiers, April 1863	130	(2)
Wilbur Fisk
Reports on the Aftermath of Gettysburg, July 1863	132	(1)
Tally Simpson
Walt Whitman Speculates That ``The Real War Will Never Get in the Books,'' 1882--83	133	(1)
Essays	134	(22)
A Union Soldier's Experience	134	(10)
David W. Blight
From Volunteer to Soldier: The Psychology of Service	144	(12)
Reid Mitchell
Abraham Lincoln as Political and Military Leader	156	(30)
Documents	157	(8)
Lincoln Explains His ``Paramount Object'' of Saving the Union, August 1862	157	(1)
Salmon P. Chase Reports Lincoln's Decision on Emancipation, September 1862	158	(1)
Lincoln Proclaims the Meaning of the Conflict, The Gettysburg Address, November 1863	159	(1)
Lincoln Recounts How He Proceeded toward Emancipation, April 1864	160	(1)
Lincoln Reveals an Early Grasp of Military Strategy, January 1862	161	(1)
Lincoln Advises against Engaging Lee's Army after Gettysburg, September 1863	162	(1)
Wendell Phillips Criticizes Lincoln's War Policy, August 1862	163	(1)
Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham Condemns the Northern War Effort, January 1863	164	(1)
Essays	165	(21)
Emancipating the Republic: Lincoln and the Means and Ends of Antislavery	166	(10)
Phillip Shaw Paludan
Tried by War: Lincoln as Self-Taught Strategist	176	(10)
James M. McPherson
The Northern Home Front	186	(29)
Documents	187	(8)
Henry W. Bellows Explains the Work and Goals of the Sanitary Commission, January 1864	187	(2)
President Lincoln Addresses the Philadelphia Central Fair, June 1864	189	(1)
Mary Livermore Recounts How She Organized the Northwestern Sanitary Fair in 1864, 1889	190	(1)
Martin Ryerson Reports How Workers Are Reacting to the Draft, July 1863	191	(2)
Trade Union Members Call for an International Industrial Assembly of North America, August 1864	193	(1)
Cincinnati Sewing Women Protest Their Wartime Wages, February 1865	194	(1)
Essays	195	(20)
Voluntarism in Wartime: Philadelphia's Great Central Fair	195	(8)
J. Matthew Gallman
Industrial Workers and the Costs of War	203	(12)
Phillip Shaw Paludan
The Southern Home Front	215	(31)
Documents	216	(7)
President Davis Explains the Confederate Cause, December 1862	217	(1)
Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia Denounces Confederate Policy, September 1862	218	(1)
Plain Folk Protest the Burden of the War, February 1863	219	(1)
Vice President Alexander H. Stephens Recommends an Alternative Confederate Strategy, January 1864	220	(1)
The North Carolina Legislature Protests the Confederate Draft and Martial Law, May 1864	221	(1)
The Raleigh North Carolina Standard Urges Voters to Endorse a Negotiated Peace, July 1864	222	(1)
Congressman Warren Aiken of Georgia Contemplates the Fate of Slavery, October 1864	222	(1)
Essays	223	(23)
Dissent in the Confederacy: The North Carolina Experience	224	(10)
Marc W. Kruman
Strains of War	234	(12)
J. William Harris
Women in Wartime	246	(31)
Documents	247	(10)
Hannah Ropes Expresses the Frustration of a Union Nurse, October 1862	247	(2)
Kate Cumming Criticizes Southern Women, September 1863	249	(1)
Phoebe Yates Pember Commends Southern Women (Undated)	250	(1)
Susie King Taylor Describes Her Role in Union Army Camps, 1864	251	(1)
Mary Livermore Explains the Role of Women in the Union War Effort, 1889	251	(2)
Gertude Thomas Finds Confederate Prospects Gloomy, November 1864	253	(1)
Catherine Edmondston of North Carolina Discusses Matters Public and Domestic, January 1865	254	(1)
Cornelia Peake McDonald Comments on Class and Conscription, March 1865	255	(2)
Essays	257	(20)
Civil War Nurse, Civil War Nursing: Rebecca Usher of Maine	257	(8)
Elizabeth D. Leonard
Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-Interest	265	(12)
Drew Gilpin Faust
Emancipation	277	(34)
Documents	278	(10)
General Benjamin F. Butler Discovers the ``Contrabands,'' July 1861	279	(1)
The Freedmen's Inquiry Commission Considers Policy toward the Ex-Slaves, June 1863	280	(1)
President Lincoln Defends Emancipation, August 1863	281	(1)
The U. S. Adjutant General Describes the Condition of Fleeing Slaves, August 1863	282	(2)
Protests the Mistreatment of His Family by the U. S. Army, November 1864	284	(1)
Joseph Miller
Complains of Racial Discrimination on the Battlefield, August 1864	285	(1)
James H. Payne
Frederick Douglass States the Freedmen's Demands, April 1865	286	(1)
Gertrude Thomas Is Upset That Her Slaves Are Leaving, May 1865	287	(1)
Essays	288	(23)
Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and its Meaning	288	(9)
Ira Berlin
Black Glory: The African American Role in Union Victory	297	(14)
Joseph T. Glatthaar
Congress's Terms for the Defeated South	311	(31)
Documents	312	(9)
Presents His ``Grasp of War'' Theory, June 1865	312	(2)
Richard H. Dana, Jr.
Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois Explains His Civil Rights Bill, January and April 1866	314	(1)
Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania States His Terms, January 1867	315	(1)
Representative George W. Julian of Indiana Outlines the Scope of Reconstruction, January 1867	316	(1)
Senator John Sherman of Ohio Urges Caution and Moderation, February 1867	317	(1)
Congress's Terms for Readmission and Reconstruction, June 1866 and March 1867	318	(2)
A North Carolina Republican, Later Condemns Congress's Reconstruction Policy, 1879	320	(1)
Albion Tourgee
Essays	321	(21)
The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction	322	(9)
Michael Les Benedict
Thaddeus Stevens, Confiscation, and Reconstruction	331	(11)
Eric Foner
Political and Economic Change in the Reconstruction South	342	(35)
Documents	343	(8)
South Carolina African Americans Present Their Demands, November 1865	344	(1)
Mattie Curtis Remembers Her Struggle after Emancipation (Undated)	345	(1)
Henry Adams Reports on Women and Fieldwork, 1867	345	(1)
Richard H. Cain of South Carolina Stresses the Importance of Land, February 1868	346	(1)
Edward King Describes the Postwar Plantation System in the Natchez District, 1875	347	(2)
Albert T. Morgan of Mississippi Recalls His Achievements As Sheriff, 1884	349	(2)
Essays	351	(26)
Black Reconstruction Leaders at the Grass Roots	351	(8)
Eric Foner
The Political Economy of the Black Family During Reconstruction	359	(8)
Jacqueline Jones
The Reconstruction of the Cotton Plantation in the New South	367	(10)
Harold D. Woodman
Southern Republicans and the Problems of Reconstruction	377	(24)
Documents	378	(9)
Former Governor James L. Orr Defends South Carolina's Republican Government, June 1871	378	(2)
Representative L. Q. C. Lamar of Mississippi Assails Reconstruction, June 1874	380	(2)
Governor William P. Kellogg of Louisiana Demands Punishment for the Coushatta Assassins, September 1874	382	(1)
Representative Alexander White of Alabama Defends ``Carpetbaggers,'' February 1875	383	(2)
Charles Nordhoff Censures Mississippi Politicians, 1875	385	(1)
Governor Adelbert Ames Deplores the Violence in Mississippi, September 1875	386	(1)
Essays	387	(14)
Carpetbaggers and the Problems of Republican Rule in the South	388	(6)
Lawrence N. Powell
Reconstruction under Attack	394	(7)
Michael Perman
The Northern Retreat from Reconstruction	401	(30)
Documents	402	(7)
Senator Charles Summer Can No Longer Support President Grant, August 1871	403	(1)
Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri Condemns Reconstruction, January 1872	404	(1)
James Shepherd Pike Offers a Liberal Republican View of Reconstruction, 1873	405	(1)
Speaker James G. Blaine Points Out the Results of the Republicans' Generous Amnesty Policy, January 1876	406	(1)
Rutherford B. Hayes Describes His Southern Policy for the 1876 Presidential Campaign, July 1876	407	(1)
President Grant Disclaims Responsibility for Reconstruction in South Carolina, July 1876	408	(1)
Essays	409	(22)
Reconstruction Winds Down: The Grant Years, 1869--1877	409	(11)
Richard H. Abbott
Reform Republicans and the Retreat From Reconstruction	420	(11)
Michael Les Benedict
The Impact and Significance of the Sectional Conflict	431	(20)
Essays	432	(19)
The Second American Revolution	433	(9)
James M. McPherson
One among Many: The Civil War and National Unification	442	(9)
Carl N. Degler
Class and State in Postemacipation Societies	451
Steven Hahn