TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downs,Gregory P.
TI  - After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War 
SN  - 9780674426146
AV  - E668 
U1  - 973.7/14 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Civil-military relations
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Freedmen
KW  - Military occupation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Notes on Sources --; Introduction. The War That Could Not End --; 1. After Surrender --; 2. Emancipation at Gunpoint --; 3. The Challenge of Civil Government --; 4. Authority without Arms --; 5. The War in Washington --; 6. A False Peace --; 7. Enfranchisement by Martial Law --; 8. Between Bullets and Ballots --; 9. The Perils of Peace --; Conclusion. A Government without Force --; Appendixes --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871—not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674426146
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674426146
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674426146/original
ER  -