9780674241626-0674241622-After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War

After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War

ISBN-13: 9780674241626
ISBN-10: 0674241622
Edition: Reprint
Author: Gregory P. Downs
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674241626
ISBN-10: 0674241622
Edition: Reprint
Author: Gregory P. Downs
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (ISBN-13: 9780674241626 and ISBN-10: 0674241622), written by authors Gregory P. Downs, was published by Harvard University Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Civil War (State & Local, United States History, Historical Study & Educational Resources, United States, Politics & Government, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Civil War books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.65.

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“Original and revelatory.”
―David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass

Avery O. Craven Award Finalist
A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the Year

In April 1865, Robert E. Lee wrote to Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. The distinction proved prophetic.

After Appomattox reveals that the Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. Instead, a second phase of the war began which lasted until 1871―not the project euphemistically called Reconstruction, but a state of genuine belligerence whose mission was to shape the peace. Using its war powers, the U.S. Army oversaw an ambitious occupation, stationing tens of thousands of troops in outposts across the defeated South. This groundbreaking history shows that the purpose of the occupation was to crush slavery in the face of fierce and violent resistance, but there were limits to its effectiveness: the occupying army never really managed to remake the South.

“The United States Army has been far too neglected as a player―a force―in the history of Reconstruction… Downs wants his work to speak to the present, and indeed it should.”
―David W. Blight, The Atlantic

“Striking… Downs chronicles…a military occupation that was indispensable to the uprooting of slavery.”
Boston Globe

“Downs makes the case that the final end to slavery, and the establishment of basic civil and voting rights for all Americans, was ‘born in the face of bayonets.’ …A remarkable, necessary book.”
Slate

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