This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the
reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male
and female; elite and non-elite; white, black, and American Indian
- disagreed with the federal government over the obligations
citizens owed to their nation and the obligations the nation owed
to its citizens. Susanna Michele Lee explores these clashes through
the operations of the Southern Claims Commission, a federal body
that rewarded compensation for wartime losses to Southerners who
proved that they had been loyal citizens of the Union. Lee argues
that Southerners forced the federal government to consider how
white men who had not been soldiers and voters, and women and
racial minorities who had not been allowed to serve in those
capacities, could also qualify as loyal citizens. Postwar
considerations of the former Confederacy potentially demanded a
reconceptualization of citizenship that replaced exclusions by race
and gender with inclusions according to loyalty.
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