<p><div>Within two months of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, the Confederacy had collapsed, and its armed forces had ceased to exist. In the spring of 1865, the U.S. Army faced the unprecedented task of occupying eleven conquered Southern states and administering "Reconstruction"--the process by which the former rebellious states would be restored to the Union. But a rapid demobilization of the Army placed the remaining occupation troops at a disadvantage almost from the start.</div> <div> </div> <div>This text traces the Army's law enforcement, stability, and peacekeeping roles in the South from May 1865 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877, marking a unique period in American history. During that time, the Southern states remained under military occupation, and for several years, they were also ruled by military government. Veteran Army commanders such as Philip H. Sheridan, John M. Schofield, Daniel E. Sickles, Edward R. S. Canby, and Winfield S. Hancock may have found the work of Reconstruction less dangerous than fighting the Civil War had been, but they also found it no less challenging.<br /> <br /> High school studetns and above, including community college students and history professors or military historians may find this resource helpful for supplemental reading or research about the American Civil War.  American citizens, military personnel, and others that may be interested in Civil War materials for their personal collections may be interested in this work.  Additionally, high school libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, and Fereal/State/Municipal Government libraries may want a copy of this volume and series for their historical collections. </div> <div> </div></p>

U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: The Army and Reconstruction, 1866-1877

Biographies & Memoirs

Bradley, Mark L.

Historical

Center of Military History

<p>Even after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, the Civil War continued to be fought, and surrenders negotiated, on different fronts. The most notable of these occurred at Bennett Place, near Durham, North Carolina, when Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Union General William T. Sherman. In this first full-length examination of the end of the war in North Carolina, Mark Bradley traces the campaign leading up to Bennett Place.<br><br>Alternating between Union and Confederate points of view and drawing on his readings of primary sources, including numerous eyewitness accounts and the final muster rolls of the Army of Tennessee, Bradley depicts the action as it was experienced by the troops and the civilians in their path. He offers new information about the morale of the Army of Tennessee during its final confrontation with Sherman's much larger Union army. And he advances a fresh interpretation of Sherman's and Johnston's roles in the final negotiations for the surrender.<br><br><br><br><br></p>

This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place

History

Americas

Univ of North Carolina Pr

The University of North Carolina Press

<p>Though the Civil War ended in April 1865, the conflict between Unionists and Confederates continued. The bitterness and rancor resulting from the collapse of the Confederacy spurred an ongoing cycle of hostility and bloodshed that made the Reconstruction period a violent era of transition. The violence was so pervasive that the federal government deployed units of the U.S. Army in North Carolina and other southern states to maintain law and order and protect blacks and Unionists.<br><br><i>Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina</i> tells the story of the army's twelve-year occupation of North Carolina, a time of political instability and social unrest. Author Mark Bradley details the complex interaction between the federal soldiers and the North Carolina civilians during this tumultuous period. The federal troops attempted an impossible juggling act: protecting the social and political rights of the newly freed black North Carolinians while conciliating their former enemies, the ex-Confederates. The officers sought to minimize violence and unrest during the lengthy transition from war to peace, but they ultimately proved far more successful in promoting sectional reconciliation than in protecting the freedpeople. <br><br>Bradley's exhaustive study examines the military efforts to stabilize the region in the face of opposition from both ordinary citizens and dangerous outlaws such as the Regulators and the Ku Klux Klan. By 1872, the widespread, organized violence that had plagued North Carolina since the close of the war had ceased, enabling the bluecoats and the ex-Confederates to participate in public rituals and social events that served as symbols of sectional reconciliation. This rapprochement has been largely forgotten, lost amidst the postbellum barrage of Lost Cause rhetoric, causing many historians to believe that the process of national reunion did not begin until after Reconstruction. Rectifying this misconception, <i>Bluecoats and Tar Heels</i> illuminates the U.S. Army's significant role in an understudied aspect of Civil War reconciliation.</p>

Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina (New Directions In Southern History)

University Press of Kentucky

<p>As Sherman completed the destruction of Georgia, only the outnumbered but wily Confederate commander Joseph E. Johnston stood between the victorious Northern troops and the conquest of North and South Carolina.</p>

The Battle Of Bentonville: Last Stand In The Carolinas

Savas Publishing

<p>Within two months of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, the Confederacy had collapsed, and its armed forces had ceased to exist. The systematic destruction of the South’s transportation, manufacturing, and industrial facilities during the closing months of the war had ensured the futility of further armed resistance. It also made a swift economic recovery next to impossible, leaving ex-Confederates destitute and bitter over their harsh fate. The bloodiest war in U.S. history—final death toll estimates range from 600,000 to over 800,000 fighting men—had settled the critical issues of secession and slavery but left much else unresolved, above all the former slaves’ civil, political, and economic status in the postwar South.</p>

The Army and Reconstruction 1865-1877 (The U.S Army Campaigns of the Civil War)

St. John's Press

The Civil War Ends 1865 (The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War)

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U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: The Army and Reconstruction, 1866-1877

This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place

This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place

Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina (New Directions In Southern History)

Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina (New Directions In Southern History)

The Battle Of Bentonville: Last Stand In The Carolinas

The Army and Reconstruction 1865-1877 (The U.S Army Campaigns of the Civil War)

The Civil War Ends 1865 (The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War)