The Civil War Confiscation Acts : failing to reconstruct the South /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Syrett, John, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Reconstructing America (Series) ; no. 10.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The First Confiscation Act
  • The Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents
  • The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result
  • Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and Bates
  • Early military confiscation
  • Rules of war and later military confiscation
  • The Treasury's part in confiscation
  • The politics of confiscation
  • Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation
  • Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures
  • Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration.