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How the Confederate capital’s citizens, white and Black, faced their future in the wake of Union victory
In April 1865, the Civil War, which had consumed the lives of the residents of Richmond, Virginia, for four years, ended in a vast conflagration that nearly destroyed their city. As Confederate troops fled and Union forces streamed in, the world they had known literally went up in flames. None could predict what would replace it when the smoke cleared.
After the Fire tells what happened next, offering a kaleidoscope of perspectives to evoke a vanished world of privation, defeat, jubilation, false starts, engrained antagonism, and the lost causes of Confederate nostalgia and of racial reconciliation. Nelson Lankford deftly narrates the desperate struggle of Confederates and Unionists, men and women, and white and Black Americans to shape the postwar landscape. Unsettling any sense of inevitability about this pivotal moment in history, Lankford puts the reader in the shoes of those who lived through it.
In April 1865, the Civil War, which had consumed the lives of the residents of Richmond, Virginia, for four years, ended in a vast conflagration that nearly destroyed their city. As Confederate troops fled and Union forces streamed in, the world they had known literally went up in flames. None could predict what would replace it when the smoke cleared.
After the Fire tells what happened next, offering a kaleidoscope of perspectives to evoke a vanished world of privation, defeat, jubilation, false starts, engrained antagonism, and the lost causes of Confederate nostalgia and of racial reconciliation. Nelson Lankford deftly narrates the desperate struggle of Confederates and Unionists, men and women, and white and Black Americans to shape the postwar landscape. Unsettling any sense of inevitability about this pivotal moment in history, Lankford puts the reader in the shoes of those who lived through it.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue
- 1. Last Ditch of the Rebellion
- 2. No Longer Way down in Egypt’s Land
- 3. You Cannot Subjugate Us
- 4. Charred Ruins
- 5. Angry Passions Hushed
- 6. Our Quivering Flesh
- 7. Correction of Every Evil
- 8. Stern Exactions
- 9. Phoenix Arising
- 10. An Equal Chance
- 11. Extricate Us from All Our Troubles
- 12. The Box of Pandora Is Opened
- 13. Winter into Spring
- 14. Observed and Remembered
- 15. The Heroic Dead Reigned Supreme
- 16. The Fires of Malice
- 17. Obliterate All Distinctions
- 18. The Prisoner
- 19. Fit Them for Citizenship
- 20. The Disgrace Is Inflicted
- 21. Deus ex Machina
- 22. Left Undone
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index