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After Appomattox : military occupation and the ends of war /

The Civil War did not end at Appomattox Court House. Nor did it end at the surrenders that followed in North Carolina, Texas and Indian Country. The Civil War dragged on for at least five years after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865. In the first large-scale examination of...

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Main Author:	Downs, Gregory P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Occupied territories. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Peace. Military occupation > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century. Civil-military relations > Southern States > History > 19th century. Freedmen > Southern States > History > 19th century. Southern States > Race relations > History > 1865-1950. Social conflict > Southern States > History > 19th century.

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