The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the StatesFleming, Walter L. (Walter Lynwood)
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The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States
Fleming, Walter L. (Walter Lynwood)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); United States -- History -- 1865-1898
There are many scholarly monographs on reconstruction in the several
States. The best of these are: J. W. Garner's Reconstruction in
Mississippi (1901), W. L. Fleming's Civil War and Reconstruction in
Alabama (1905), J. G. deR. Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina
(1914), W. W. Davis's The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida
(1913), J. S. Reynolds's Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877
(1905); C. W. Ramsdell's Reconstruction in Texas (1910), and C. M.
Thompson's Reconstruction in Georgia (1915).
Books of interest on special phases of reconstruction are not numerous,
but among those deserving mention are Paul S. Pierce's The Freedmen's
Bureau (1904), D. M. DeWitt's The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew
Johnson (1903), and Paul L. Haworth's The Hayes-Tilden Disputed
Presidential Election of 1876 (1906), each of which is a thorough study
of its field. J. C. Lester and D. L. Wilson's Ku Klux Klan (1905) and M.
L. Avary's Dixie After the War (1906) contribute much to a fair
understanding of the feeling of the whites after the Civil War; and
Gideon Welles, Diary, 3 vols. (1911), is a mine of information from a
conservative cabinet officer's point of view.
For the politician's point of view one may go to James G. Blaine's
Twenty Years of Congress, 2 vols. (1884, 1886) and Samuel S. Cox's Three
Decades of Federal Legislation (1885). Good biographies are James A.
Woodburn's The Life of Thaddeus Stevens (1913), Moorfield Storey's
Charles Sumner (1900), C. F. Adams's Charles Francis Adams (1900). Less
satisfactory because more partisan is Edward Stanwood's James Gillespie
Blaine (1906). There are no adequate biographies of the Democratic and
Southern leaders.
The official documents are found conveniently arranged in William
McDonald's Select Statutes, 1861-1898 (1903), and also with other
material in Walter L. Fleming's Documentary History of Reconstruction, 2
vols. (1906, 1907). The general reader is usually repelled by the
collections known as Public Documents. The valuable Ku Klux Trials
(1872) is, however, separately printed and to be found in most good
libraries. By a judicious use of the indispensable Tables and Index to
Public Documents, one can find much vividly interesting material in
connection with contested election cases and reports of congressional
investigations into conditions in the South.
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