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Author:

Cwiklik, Robert, author.

Title:

Sheridan's secret mission : how the South won the war after the Civil War / Robert Cwiklik.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

1 volume ; 23 cm

Subject:

United States--Army--Biography.
Generals--Biography.
Reconstruction (1865-1876)
African Americans--Southern States--History.
United States--History--1865-1898.
Southern States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Epilogue. "The whole power of the government" There is love enough -- "The swing of old soldiers" -- Yankee panky -- Sympathy for Junta -- Invaders -- Fear of a black state -- "A trip South might be agreeable" -- A local club -- Kangaroo quorum -- "The genius of smallness" -- War in peacetime -- Making martyrs -- "A reproach upon the state and country" -- "Peaceably if possible, forcibly if necessary" -- Occasionally there were a few necks broken" -- Epilogue. "The whole power of the government"

Summary:

"A deeply researched narrative history recounting the little-known late Reconstruction-era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black citizens who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League, intent on erasing their postwar gains"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0062950649
9780062950642

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)