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Army Generals and Reconstruction - Louisiana, 1862-1877 (Paperback, New edition)
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Army Generals and Reconstruction - Louisiana, 1862-1877 (Paperback, New edition)
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The U.S. Army faced extraordinary problems while policing the
post-Civil War South, and the task may have been the most difficult
in Louisiana, where Reconstruction lasted longer than in any other
of the former Confederate states. Beginning with General Benjamin
Franklin Butler, who boasted that ""in six months New Orleans
should be a Union city or, a home of the alligators,"" the Union
generals who commanded Louisiana would meet with varying degrees of
success in their attempts to enforce the constantly evolving
Reconstruction policies of three administrations on a people who
openly despised their conquerors. Covering the period from the fall
of New Orleans to Federal forces through the collapse of Stephen
Packard's Republican government in 1877, Army Generals and
Reconstruction is a history and a detailed analysis of the army's
responsibilities, accomplishments, and failures in Reconstruction
Louisiana. The first book to fully examine and assess the army's
direct influence on Louisiana politics during Reconstruction,
Joseph G. Dawson's study shows how the decisions and attitudes of
the army commanders were crucial to both the Republican and
Democratic parties and how neither side could act confidently
without knowing first how the generals would respond to their
actions. Dawson examines the army commanders' efforts to ensure
that blacks and Republicans could exercise their civil and
political rights. He reveals the difficulties commanders often
faced in protecting Republicans from Democratic violence and
economic retribution, particularly during the 1870s when the
conservative Democrats mounted an intensive and violent campaign to
regain control of the state government. Dawson also looks at the
influence of General Philip Sheridan on Louisiana Reconstruction
politics. During his command in the state, Sheridan was able to
protect and strengthen the Republican party, but his policies
incurred the displeasure of President Andrew Johnson, who ordered
him out of Louisiana to a new assignment on the Great Plains.
Sheridan, however, retained his interest in Louisiana politics and
his support of Radical Reconstruction, and was later twice sent
into the state on special missions by President U.S. Grant. Still,
despite the efforts of Sheridan and other pro-Republican officers,
the Democrats worked their way back into power. Based on a close
examination of archival sources, including the personal papers of
the officers who commanded the occupation forces, this study by
Joseph G. Dawson reveals the fully complexity of the army's
involvement in Louisiana politics throughout Reconstruction.
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