The nomination of Grant occurred as the impeachment trial was drawing to a close. Before Congress adjourned it readmitted several of the Southern States that had been restored under the control of Republican majorities. Tennessee was already back; the new States were North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Only three States remained under provisional control when Grant was elected in November and seated in the following March. As he took the oath of office there were few, North, South, or West, who did not rejoice in his election; he had defeated the Greenback pretension, which endeared him to the East; the West remembered that he had been born and bred in the Mississippi Valley; and to the South he presented the clean hands of the regular army officer, and the welcome promise of his letter of acceptance, "Let us have peace." BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE For general accounts of the Far West in this period consult K. Coman, Economic _Beginnings of the Far West_ (2 vols., 1912), and F.L. Paxson, _The Last American Frontier_ (1910). These should be supplemented by E.L. Bogart, _Economic History of the United States_ (1907), K. Coman, _Industrial History of the United States_ (2d ed., 1910), W.A. Scott, _The Repudiation of State Debts_ (1893), and W.C. Mitchell, _History of the Greenbacks_. The more valuable memoirs include H. McCulloch, _Men and Measures of Half a Century_ (1888), and J.G. Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_ (2 vols., 1884). A brilliant analysis of the financial interests of the debtor sections is M.S. Wildman, _Money Inflation in the United States_ (1905). Rhodes continues to furnish a comprehensive narrative, and is paralleled by the shorter W.A. Dunning, _Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877_ (in _The American Nation_, vol. 22, 1907). A detailed account of impeachment politics is in D.M. DeWitt, _Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson_ (1903), and in J.A. Woodburn, _The Life of Thaddeus Stevens_ (1913). J.P. Davis, _The Union Pacific Railway_ (1894), is the standard account of the early movement for a continental railroad. S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain) presents a vivid picture of frontier life in _Roughing It_ (1872), while A.B. Paine, _Mark Twain_ (3 vols., 1912), contains much material of general historical interest for this period. CHAPTER III THE RESTORATION OF HOME RULE IN THE SOUTH The eight Southern States whose votes were cast in 1868 were far different from the States of the same names in 1860, and were, like the three still outside the Union, largely under the control of radical Republicans. Restoration, after a fashion, they had received, but it had been accompanied by a revolution in society, in politics, and in economic life. "Reconstruction" is an inappropriate name for what took place.