The Civil War and Reconstruction A Documentary Reader

by Harrold, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9781405156639
• ISBN10: 1405156635
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history. The American Civil War (1861-1865) is the countryrs"s largest and most significant war, as northern victory created national sovereignty and ended legal slavery. The war is also the most popular topic in American history. Reconstruction (1863-1877), although intricately linked to the Civil War, has a more complicated and darker legacy. During this era, the U.S. government undertook a limited effort in behalf of black citizenship, and-faced with violent resistance from white southerners-abandoned the effort. It provides students with a collection of about fifty essential documentary sources for these periods. Among the documents are presidential addresses, official reports, songs and poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant (and often dramatic) events. In addition to a brief introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them, there are headnotes explaining the importance of each document. The volume allows students to acquire a better understanding of the raw materials with which historians create narratives of the past. Its introduction includes an explanation of how historians analyze, contextualize, and interpret a variety of primary sources related to the Civil War and Reconstruction, making this volume a valuable supplement to widely used Civil War and Reconstruction textbooks.

Author Biography

Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and coauthor (with Darlene Clark Hine and William C. Hine) of the textbook African American Odyssey, Third Edition (2006). His most recent books include The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004), Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 (2003),and American Abolitionists (2001). He is coeditor (with Randall Miller) of the series "Southern Dissent", and his articles have appeared in Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, and Journal of the Early Republic.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
Series Editors' Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Causes	p. 17
Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833	p. 17
Address to the Slaves of the US, 1843	p. 21
Address of the Southern Delegates to their Constituents, 1849	p. 25
Irrepressible Conflict, 1858	p. 34
Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Slaves Picking Cotton, 1858	p. 38
Last Speech, 1859	p. 39
Disunion to War	p. 42
Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina, 1860	p. 42
Crittenden Compromise Proposal, 1860	p. 46
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jefferson Davis about to become Provisional President of the Confederacy, 1861	p. 49
"I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land," 1860	p. 51
First Inaugural Address, 1861	p. 52
Cornerstone Speech, 1861	p. 59
Approaching Conflict at Fort Sumter, 1861	p. 64
Battles	p. 72
First Battle of Bull Run, 1861	p. 72
"1861," 1861	p. 77
Battle of Wilson Creek and Guerilla War in Missouri, 1861-62	p. 79
The Monitor Battles the Virginia (Merrimac), 1862	p. 84
Battle of Antietam, 1862	p. 87
Battle of Gettysburg, 1863	p. 93
Union Dead on the Gettysburg Battlefield, 1863	p. 95
Black-White Guerilla War in Florida, 1863	p. 96
Battle of Chickamauga, 1863	p. 98
Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1865	p. 102
General Report of Operations, 1864-65	p. 105
Soldiers' Experiences	p. 108
A Woman in the New York Volunteers, 1862-64	p. 108
Preserving Discipline in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1863	p. 112
Union Soldiers Recovering from Wounds, 1864	p. 113
Union Soldiers under Fire, 1862-64	p. 114
Religion and the Daily Lives of Union Soldiers in Alabama, 1864	p. 117
A Confederate Officer Observes the Siege of Petersburg, 1864	p. 120
US Colored Cavalry in Virginia, 1864	p. 124
On Soldiers and Prostitutes, City Point, Virginia, 1864	p. 126
A Confederate Woman on Union Prisoners at Andersonville, 1865	p. 127
Homefronts	p. 130
Confederate Women Prepare their Men for War, 1861	p. 130
Corruption in Washington, DC, 1862	p. 132
Contraband Camps in Alexandria, Virginia, 1863	p. 134
Life in Besieged Vicksburg, 1863	p. 137
Richmond Bread Riot, 1863	p. 142
Illustrated London News, New York City Draft Riot, 1863	p. 144
"Barbara Frietchie," 1864	p. 146
Political Perspectives	p. 149
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1862	p. 149
Union War Aims, 1862	p. 150
State Sovereignty in the Confederacy, 1862 Joseph E. Brown	p. 153
Emancipation Proclamation, 1863	p. 154
Northern Opposition to the Civil War, 1863	p. 157
"Men of Color to Arms!" 1863	p. 160
Gettysburg Address, 1863	p. 163
Democratic Caricature of Republican Racial Policy, 1864	p. 164
War for Slavery, 1865	p. 166
Second Inaugural Address, 1865	p. 168
The Trans-Mississippi West	p. 170
Homestead Act, 1862	p. 170
Sand Creek Massacre, 1864	p. 173
Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868	p. 179
Joining of the Rails, Promontory, Utah, 1869	p. 185
Reconstruction	p. 187
Presidential Reconstruction, 1863	p. 187
African-American Refugees amid Ruins of Richmond, 1865	p. 190
State Convention of the Colored People of South Carolina, Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 1865	p. 191
Congressional Reconstruction, 1865	p. 193
Reconstruction Amendments, 1865-70	p. 199
An Appeal to the Women of the United States, 1871	p. 201
Ku Klux Klan Terrorism, 1871	p. 205
Failure of Reconstruction, 1879	p. 209
Suggested Reading	p. 217
Index	p. 218
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