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Major Problems in Civil War & Reconstruction

ISBN: 9780395868492 | 0395868491
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/20/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
This best-selling title, designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, covers the Civil War's entire chronological span with a series of documents and essays.
Prefacexiii
The North and South Compared
1(30)
Documents
2(8)
... MORELydia Maria Child Describes How Slavery Harms the South, 1833
2(1)
Frederick Law Olmsted Observes Southern Lassitude, 1854
3(1)
Hinton Rowan Helper Exposes Southern Economic Backwardness, 1857
4(1)
Frederick Law Olmsted Criticizes the South's Lack of Material Progress, 1861
5(1)
James Henry Hammond Claims Southern Cultural Superiority, 1845
6(2)
George Fitzhugh Praises Southern Society, 1854
8(1)
J. D. B. DeBow Explains Why Nonslaveholders Should Support Slavery, 1860
9(1)
Essays
10(21)
The Similarities between the Antebellum North and South
11(10)
Edward Pessen
The Differences between the Antebellum North and South
21(10)
James M. McPherson
Sectional Politics in the 1850s
31(33)
Documents
32(8)
Independent Democrats Protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act, January 1854
32(2)
Senator Stephen Douglas Explains the Objectives of His Bill, February 1854
34(1)
Senator Charles Summer of Massachusetts Ridicules the Southern Gentry, May 1856
35(1)
Congressman Thomas S. Bocock of Virginia Defends Preston Brooks, July 1856
36(2)
Senator William H. Seward of New York Warns of an Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858
38(1)
Senator Albert G. Brown of Mississippi Renounces the Protection of the Union, December 1859
39(1)
Essays
40(24)
The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Rise of the Republican Party
41(11)
William E. Gienapp
Kansas, Republicanism, and the Crisis of the Union
52(12)
Don E. Fehrenbacher
The Secession Crisis
64(25)
Documents
64(7)
President-Elect Lincoln Explains What Is at Stake, December 1860
65(1)
Congressman John A. Gilmer of North Carolina Urges Delay and Conciliation, March 1861
66(1)
Secretary of State William H. Seward Advises Restraint, March 1861
67(2)
Former Congressman Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia Advises against Secession, November 1860
69(1)
Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia Defends His Own and His State's Honor, November 1860
70(1)
The Raleigh North Carolina Standard Weighs Honor and Secession, December 1860
71(1)
Essays
71(18)
Lincoln and the Secession Crisis
72(8)
Kenneth M. Stampp
Honor and Secession
80(9)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Fighting the War: The Generals
89(35)
Documents
92(12)
General George B. McClellan Gives a Lesson in Grand Strategy, July 1862
92(2)
General Robert E. Lee Takes the Offensive, September 1862
94(1)
Assesses Lee and McClellan at Antietam, September 1862
95(2)
General E. Porter Alexander
General Alexander Later Criticizes the Confederacy's Conduct of the War, c. 1900
97(1)
Acknowledges That the War Has Changed Course, March 1863
98(1)
General Henry W. Halleck
The Union Army Redefines the Rules of War: Lieber's Code, May 1863
99(2)
General William T. Sherman Explains How the War Has Changed, September 1864
101(2)
General Ulysses S. Grant Reports His Assignment Accomplished, July 1865
103(1)
Essays
104(20)
The Maryland Campaign in Perspective
104(8)
Gray W. Gallagher
Gestures of Mercy, Pillars of Fire
112(12)
Mark Grimsley
Fighting the War: The Soldiers
124(32)
Documents
125(9)
Describes His First Experience with Combat, July 1861
126(1)
Eugene Blackford
Acknowledges the Persistence of Fear (Undated)
127(1)
John Dooley
Assesses the Contribution of His Family and Community to the War, July 1862
127(2)
Charles Harvey Brewster
Describes His Reaction to Antietam and to Possible Emancipation, September 1862
129(1)
Robert Gould Shaw
Discusses Morale among the Soldiers, April 1863
130(2)
Wilbur Fisk
Reports on the Aftermath of Gettysburg, July 1863
132(1)
Tally Simpson
Walt Whitman Speculates That ``The Real War Will Never Get in the Books,'' 1882--83
133(1)
Essays
134(22)
A Union Soldier's Experience
134(10)
David W. Blight
From Volunteer to Soldier: The Psychology of Service
144(12)
Reid Mitchell
Abraham Lincoln as Political and Military Leader
156(30)
Documents
157(8)
Lincoln Explains His ``Paramount Object'' of Saving the Union, August 1862
157(1)
Salmon P. Chase Reports Lincoln's Decision on Emancipation, September 1862
158(1)
Lincoln Proclaims the Meaning of the Conflict, The Gettysburg Address, November 1863
159(1)
Lincoln Recounts How He Proceeded toward Emancipation, April 1864
160(1)
Lincoln Reveals an Early Grasp of Military Strategy, January 1862
161(1)
Lincoln Advises against Engaging Lee's Army after Gettysburg, September 1863
162(1)
Wendell Phillips Criticizes Lincoln's War Policy, August 1862
163(1)
Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham Condemns the Northern War Effort, January 1863
164(1)
Essays
165(21)
Emancipating the Republic: Lincoln and the Means and Ends of Antislavery
166(10)
Phillip Shaw Paludan
Tried by War: Lincoln as Self-Taught Strategist
176(10)
James M. McPherson
The Northern Home Front
186(29)
Documents
187(8)
Henry W. Bellows Explains the Work and Goals of the Sanitary Commission, January 1864
187(2)
President Lincoln Addresses the Philadelphia Central Fair, June 1864
189(1)
Mary Livermore Recounts How She Organized the Northwestern Sanitary Fair in 1864, 1889
190(1)
Martin Ryerson Reports How Workers Are Reacting to the Draft, July 1863
191(2)
Trade Union Members Call for an International Industrial Assembly of North America, August 1864
193(1)
Cincinnati Sewing Women Protest Their Wartime Wages, February 1865
194(1)
Essays
195(20)
Voluntarism in Wartime: Philadelphia's Great Central Fair
195(8)
J. Matthew Gallman
Industrial Workers and the Costs of War
203(12)
Phillip Shaw Paludan
The Southern Home Front
215(31)
Documents
216(7)
President Davis Explains the Confederate Cause, December 1862
217(1)
Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia Denounces Confederate Policy, September 1862
218(1)
Plain Folk Protest the Burden of the War, February 1863
219(1)
Vice President Alexander H. Stephens Recommends an Alternative Confederate Strategy, January 1864
220(1)
The North Carolina Legislature Protests the Confederate Draft and Martial Law, May 1864
221(1)
The Raleigh North Carolina Standard Urges Voters to Endorse a Negotiated Peace, July 1864
222(1)
Congressman Warren Aiken of Georgia Contemplates the Fate of Slavery, October 1864
222(1)
Essays
223(23)
Dissent in the Confederacy: The North Carolina Experience
224(10)
Marc W. Kruman
Strains of War
234(12)
J. William Harris
Women in Wartime
246(31)
Documents
247(10)
Hannah Ropes Expresses the Frustration of a Union Nurse, October 1862
247(2)
Kate Cumming Criticizes Southern Women, September 1863
249(1)
Phoebe Yates Pember Commends Southern Women (Undated)
250(1)
Susie King Taylor Describes Her Role in Union Army Camps, 1864
251(1)
Mary Livermore Explains the Role of Women in the Union War Effort, 1889
251(2)
Gertude Thomas Finds Confederate Prospects Gloomy, November 1864
253(1)
Catherine Edmondston of North Carolina Discusses Matters Public and Domestic, January 1865
254(1)
Cornelia Peake McDonald Comments on Class and Conscription, March 1865
255(2)
Essays
257(20)
Civil War Nurse, Civil War Nursing: Rebecca Usher of Maine
257(8)
Elizabeth D. Leonard
Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-Interest
265(12)
Drew Gilpin Faust
Emancipation
277(34)
Documents
278(10)
General Benjamin F. Butler Discovers the ``Contrabands,'' July 1861
279(1)
The Freedmen's Inquiry Commission Considers Policy toward the Ex-Slaves, June 1863
280(1)
President Lincoln Defends Emancipation, August 1863
281(1)
The U. S. Adjutant General Describes the Condition of Fleeing Slaves, August 1863
282(2)
Protests the Mistreatment of His Family by the U. S. Army, November 1864
284(1)
Joseph Miller
Complains of Racial Discrimination on the Battlefield, August 1864
285(1)
James H. Payne
Frederick Douglass States the Freedmen's Demands, April 1865
286(1)
Gertrude Thomas Is Upset That Her Slaves Are Leaving, May 1865
287(1)
Essays
288(23)
Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and its Meaning
288(9)
Ira Berlin
Black Glory: The African American Role in Union Victory
297(14)
Joseph T. Glatthaar
Congress's Terms for the Defeated South
311(31)
Documents
312(9)
Presents His ``Grasp of War'' Theory, June 1865
312(2)
Richard H. Dana, Jr.
Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois Explains His Civil Rights Bill, January and April 1866
314(1)
Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania States His Terms, January 1867
315(1)
Representative George W. Julian of Indiana Outlines the Scope of Reconstruction, January 1867
316(1)
Senator John Sherman of Ohio Urges Caution and Moderation, February 1867
317(1)
Congress's Terms for Readmission and Reconstruction, June 1866 and March 1867
318(2)
A North Carolina Republican, Later Condemns Congress's Reconstruction Policy, 1879
320(1)
Albion Tourgee
Essays
321(21)
The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction
322(9)
Michael Les Benedict
Thaddeus Stevens, Confiscation, and Reconstruction
331(11)
Eric Foner
Political and Economic Change in the Reconstruction South
342(35)
Documents
343(8)
South Carolina African Americans Present Their Demands, November 1865
344(1)
Mattie Curtis Remembers Her Struggle after Emancipation (Undated)
345(1)
Henry Adams Reports on Women and Fieldwork, 1867
345(1)
Richard H. Cain of South Carolina Stresses the Importance of Land, February 1868
346(1)
Edward King Describes the Postwar Plantation System in the Natchez District, 1875
347(2)
Albert T. Morgan of Mississippi Recalls His Achievements As Sheriff, 1884
349(2)
Essays
351(26)
Black Reconstruction Leaders at the Grass Roots
351(8)
Eric Foner
The Political Economy of the Black Family During Reconstruction
359(8)
Jacqueline Jones
The Reconstruction of the Cotton Plantation in the New South
367(10)
Harold D. Woodman
Southern Republicans and the Problems of Reconstruction
377(24)
Documents
378(9)
Former Governor James L. Orr Defends South Carolina's Republican Government, June 1871
378(2)
Representative L. Q. C. Lamar of Mississippi Assails Reconstruction, June 1874
380(2)
Governor William P. Kellogg of Louisiana Demands Punishment for the Coushatta Assassins, September 1874
382(1)
Representative Alexander White of Alabama Defends ``Carpetbaggers,'' February 1875
383(2)
Charles Nordhoff Censures Mississippi Politicians, 1875
385(1)
Governor Adelbert Ames Deplores the Violence in Mississippi, September 1875
386(1)
Essays
387(14)
Carpetbaggers and the Problems of Republican Rule in the South
388(6)
Lawrence N. Powell
Reconstruction under Attack
394(7)
Michael Perman
The Northern Retreat from Reconstruction
401(30)
Documents
402(7)
Senator Charles Summer Can No Longer Support President Grant, August 1871
403(1)
Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri Condemns Reconstruction, January 1872
404(1)
James Shepherd Pike Offers a Liberal Republican View of Reconstruction, 1873
405(1)
Speaker James G. Blaine Points Out the Results of the Republicans' Generous Amnesty Policy, January 1876
406(1)
Rutherford B. Hayes Describes His Southern Policy for the 1876 Presidential Campaign, July 1876
407(1)
President Grant Disclaims Responsibility for Reconstruction in South Carolina, July 1876
408(1)
Essays
409(22)
Reconstruction Winds Down: The Grant Years, 1869--1877
409(11)
Richard H. Abbott
Reform Republicans and the Retreat From Reconstruction
420(11)
Michael Les Benedict
The Impact and Significance of the Sectional Conflict
431(20)
Essays
432(19)
The Second American Revolution
433(9)
James M. McPherson
One among Many: The Civil War and National Unification
442(9)
Carl N. Degler
Class and State in Postemacipation Societies
451
Steven Hahn

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