Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction: 1865–1868

by Michael Perman

• ISBN13: 9780521097796
• ISBN10: 0521097797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1973-09-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A study of the political leadership of the Southern States during the decisive three years immediately after the American Civil War. This was the crucial moment when the terms and shape of the post-war sectional settlement were being deliberated and determined and its outcome depended on the policy pursued by the Federal government towards the leaders of the Confederacy as well as on the Southerners' response to whatever course was adopted. Consequently, the Southern politicians were at the centre of the whole problem of reunion. It is very surprising, therefore, that until this study there has been virtually no analysis by historians of the goals, strategies and priorities of the Confederates. Yet without this, the struggle over Southern readmission cannot properly be understood.

Table of Contents

Conciliation and conflict

Defiant optimism

Encouraging Southern loyalty, 1865

The Provisional Governors

Strategies for readmission

Discretion decentralized

Misrepresentation

Seeking Southern co-operation, 1866

Anticipation

The South courted

'Masterly inactivity'

Determining Southern acquiescence 1867-1868

Reconstruction enjoined - March to July 1867

Reconstruction resisted - July to December 1867

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