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After Appomattox : military occupation and the ends of war /

"The Civil War did not end at Appomattox Court House. Nor did it end at the surrenders that followed in North Carolina, Texas, and Indian Country. The Civil War dragged on for at least five years after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865. In the first large-scale examina...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downs, Gregory P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The war that could not end
  • After surrender
  • Emancipation at gunpoint
  • The challenge of civil government
  • Authority without arms
  • The war in Washington
  • A false peace
  • Enfranchisement by martial law
  • Between bullets and ballots
  • The perils of peace
  • Conclusion: A government without force
  • Appendixes