Major Problems in Civil War & Reconstruction

, by Perman, Michael; Paterson, Thomas G.

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ISBN: 9780395868492 | 0395868491
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Copyright: 1/20/1998

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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.

Preface

xiii

The North and South Compared

(30)

Documents

(8)

Lydia Maria Child Describes How Slavery Harms the South, 1833

(1)

Frederick Law Olmsted Observes Southern Lassitude, 1854

(1)

Hinton Rowan Helper Exposes Southern Economic Backwardness, 1857

(1)

Frederick Law Olmsted Criticizes the South's Lack of Material Progress, 1861

(1)

James Henry Hammond Claims Southern Cultural Superiority, 1845

(2)

George Fitzhugh Praises Southern Society, 1854

(1)

J. D. B. DeBow Explains Why Nonslaveholders Should Support Slavery, 1860

(1)

Essays

(21)

The Similarities between the Antebellum North and South

(10)

Edward Pessen

The Differences between the Antebellum North and South

(10)

James M. McPherson

Sectional Politics in the 1850s

(33)

Documents

(8)

Independent Democrats Protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act, January 1854

(2)

Senator Stephen Douglas Explains the Objectives of His Bill, February 1854

(1)

Senator Charles Summer of Massachusetts Ridicules the Southern Gentry, May 1856

(1)

Congressman Thomas S. Bocock of Virginia Defends Preston Brooks, July 1856

(2)

Senator William H. Seward of New York Warns of an Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858

(1)

Senator Albert G. Brown of Mississippi Renounces the Protection of the Union, December 1859

(1)

Essays

(24)

The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Rise of the Republican Party

(11)

William E. Gienapp

Kansas, Republicanism, and the Crisis of the Union

(12)

Don E. Fehrenbacher

The Secession Crisis

(25)

Documents

(7)

President-Elect Lincoln Explains What Is at Stake, December 1860

(1)

Congressman John A. Gilmer of North Carolina Urges Delay and Conciliation, March 1861

(1)

Secretary of State William H. Seward Advises Restraint, March 1861

(2)

Former Congressman Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia Advises against Secession, November 1860

(1)

Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia Defends His Own and His State's Honor, November 1860

(1)

The Raleigh North Carolina Standard Weighs Honor and Secession, December 1860

(1)

Essays

(18)

Lincoln and the Secession Crisis

(8)

Kenneth M. Stampp

Honor and Secession

(9)

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Fighting the War: The Generals

(35)

Documents

(12)

General George B. McClellan Gives a Lesson in Grand Strategy, July 1862

(2)

General Robert E. Lee Takes the Offensive, September 1862

(1)

Assesses Lee and McClellan at Antietam, September 1862

(2)

General E. Porter Alexander

General Alexander Later Criticizes the Confederacy's Conduct of the War, c. 1900

(1)

Acknowledges That the War Has Changed Course, March 1863

(1)

General Henry W. Halleck

The Union Army Redefines the Rules of War: Lieber's Code, May 1863

(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

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