After Lincoln
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After Lincoln

How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

After Lincoln

How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace

About this book

A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century. With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals, " in Doris Kearns Goodwin's phrase, was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Northern Congressmen, Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stephens and Charles Sumner, who wanted to punish the defeated South. When Johnson's policies placated the rebels at the expense of the black freed men, radicals in the House impeached him for trying to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Johnson was saved from removal by one vote in the Senate trial, presided over by Salmon Chase. Even William Seward, Lincoln's closest ally, seemed to waver.By the 1868 election, united Republicans nominated Ulysses Grant, Lincoln's winning Union general. The night of his victory, Grant lamented to his wife, "I'm afraid I'm elected." His attempts to reconcile Southerners with the Union and to quash the rising Ku Klux Klan were undercut by post-war greed and corruption.Reconstruction died unofficially in 1887 when Republican Rutherford Hayes joined with the Democrats in a deal that removed the last federal troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill with protections first proposed in 1872 by the Radical Senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2014
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781451617344
Subtopic
American Civil War History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Cast of Characters
  4. April 14, 1865
  5. Chapter 1: Charles Sumner (1865)
  6. Chapter 2: William Henry Seward (1865)
  7. Chapter 3: Jefferson Davis (1865)
  8. Chapter 4: Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (1865)
  9. Chapter 5: Andrew Johnson (1865)
  10. Chapter 6: Oliver Otis Howard (1865)
  11. Chapter 7: Thaddeus Stevens (1865–1866)
  12. Chapter 8: The Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
  13. Chapter 9: Edwin Stanton (1867–1868)
  14. Chapter 10: Salmon Portland Chase (1868)
  15. Chapter 11: Benjamin Franklin Wade (1868)
  16. Chapter 12: Nathan Bedford Forrest (1868)
  17. Chapter 13: Ulysses S. Grant (1869)
  18. Chapter 14: Gold and Santo Domingo (1869–1870)
  19. Chapter 15: Ku Klux Klan (1870–1872)
  20. Chapter 16: Horace Greeley (1872)
  21. Chapter 17: Hiram Revels (1872–1873)
  22. Chapter 18: Grant’s Second Term (1873–1876)
  23. Chapter 19: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1876)
  24. Chapter 20: Jim Crow (1877)
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. About the Author
  27. Notes
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index
  30. Photo Credits
  31. Copyright

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