After Appomattox : : Military Occupation and the Ends of War / / Gregory P. Downs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Downs, Gregory P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.) :; 6 halftones, 9 maps, 2 graphs, 7 tables
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674426146; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674426146
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gregory P. Downs.

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.