The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War

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