When the War Was over

by Carter, Dan T.

• ISBN13: 9780807112045
• ISBN10: 0807112046
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-05-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

Dan T. Carter's When the War Was Over is a social and political history of the two years following the surrender of the Confederacy - the so-called period of Presidential Reconstruction when the South, under the watchful gaze of Congress and the Union army, attempted to rebuild its shattered society and economic structure. Working primarily from rich manuscript sources, Carter draws a vivid portrait of the political leaders who emerged after the war, a diverse group of men - former loyalists as well as a few mildly repentant fire-eaters - who in some cases genuinely sought to find a place in southern society for the newly emancipated slaves, but who in many other cases merely sought to redesign the boundaries of black servitude.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(5)
Chapter I Social Disorder and Violence in the Land of the Vanquished	6	(18)
Chapter II Self-Reconstruction Begins: The Failure of Strait-Sect Unionism	24	(37)
Chapter III Southern Realism and Southern Honor: The Limits of Self-Reconstruction	61	(35)
Chapter IV Uncertain Prophets in the Land of the Vanquished	96	(51)
Chapter V The Proslavery Argument in a World Without Slavery	147	(29)
Chapter VI Self-Reconstruction: The Final Act	176	(56)
Chapter VII Political Alternatives in the Land of Fog and Confusion	232	(45)
Index	277