1 A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: An Unfinished War 1
6. 1 A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction 9
7. 2 ‘‘I Wanted a Gun’’: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri 30
8. 3 ‘‘The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky’’: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865–1868 54
9. 4 The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama’s Postwar Home Front 69
10. 5 ‘‘A New Field of Labor’’: Antislavery Women, Freedmen’s Aid, and Political Power 88
11. 6 ‘‘Objects of Humanity’’: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia 101
12. 7 Racial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans’s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation 122
13. 8 ‘‘My Children on the Field’’: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause 139
14. 9 Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact 154
15. 10 Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South 173
16. 11 Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party 183
17. Notes 205
18. Contributors 259
19. Index 261