After Appomattox

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After Appomattox is written by Gregory P. Downs and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674426169 (ISBN 10) and 9780674426160 (ISBN 13).

The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871—not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.