Dixie After the War
Published on 14. June 2022
274 pages
978-1-83974-790-8 (ISBN)
Description
Based on eyewitness accounts, this book fully and graphically portrays the social conditions which existed in the South during the twelve year Reconstruction period following the downfall of the Confederate States of America. The author deals with such subjects as the oppressive military dictatorship to which the Southern people were subjected, the intrigue of the Loyal (Union) League, the tyranny of the Freedman's Bureau, the corruption of the Carpetbagger Governments, and the rise of Southern secret societies such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camelia.-Print ed.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I - THE FALLING CROSS
- CHAPTER II - "WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER"
- CHAPTER III - THE ARMY OF THE UNION: THE CHILDREN AND THE FLAG
- CHAPTER IV - THE COMING OF LINCOLN
- CHAPTER V - THE LAST CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY
- CHAPTER VI - THE COUNSEL OF LEE
- CHAPTER VII - "THE SADDEST GOOD FRIDAY"
- CHAPTER VIII - THE WRATH OF THE NORTH
- CHAPTER IX - THE CHAINING OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
- CHAPTER X - OUR FRIENDS, THE ENEMY
- CHAPTER XI - BUTTONS, LOVERS, OATHS, WAR LORDS, AND PRAYERS FOR PRESIDENTS
- CHAPTER XII - CLUBBED TO HIS KNEES
- CHAPTER XIII - NEW FASHIONS: A LITTLE BONNET AND AN ALPACA SKIRT
- CHAPTER XIV - THE GENERAL IN THE CORNFIELD
- CHAPTER XV - TOURNAMENTS AND STARVATION PARTIES
- CHAPTER XVI - THE BONDAGE OF THE FREE
- CHAPTER XVII - BACK TO VOODOOISM
- CHAPTER XVIII - THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
- CHAPTER XIX - THE PRISONER OF FORTRESS MONROE
- CHAPTER XX - RECONSTRUCTION ORATORY
- CHAPTER XXI - THE PRISONER FREE
- CHAPTER XXII - A LITTLE PLAIN HISTORY
- CHAPTER XXIII - THE BLACK AND TAN CONVENTION: THE "MIDNIGHT CONSTITUTION"
- CHAPTER XXIV - SECRET SOCIETIES
- CHAPTER XXV - THE SOUTHERN BALLOT-BOX
- CHAPTER XXVI - THE WHITE CHILD
- CHAPTER XXVII - SCHOOLMARMS AND OTHER NEWCOMERS
- CHAPTER XXVIII - THE CARPET-BAGGER
- CHAPTER XXIX - THE DEVIL ON THE SANTEE
- CHAPTER XXX - BATTLE FOR THE STATE-HOUSE
- CHAPTER XXXI - CRIME AGAINST WOMANHOOD
- CHAPTER XXXII - RACE PREJUDICE
- CHAPTER XXXIII - MEMORIAL DAY AND DECORATION DAY. CONFEDERATE SOCIETIES
