AMERICANS IN CONFLICT: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (x) 262 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Chapters are: PART ONE: THE COMING OF THE WAR 1830 - 1860: A Nation of Sections: Shaping America's Growth; The Sections Take Shape: Northeast, Northwest, South. Dilemmas of Democracy on the Move: Slavery Casts a Dark Shadow; Jacksonian Democracy at Work; Free Negroes as Society's Orphans; Manifest Destiny Propels America to the Pacific. The Drive Against Slavery: The Antislavery Crusade Launched; Negroes and the Antislavery Drive; The Antislavery Tide Swells; Slavery Issue Pushes into Politics; Polk Wilmot and the Rift in the Democracy. Sectional Confrontation: The First Crisis of the Union - 1850; Economic Growth and Distractions Abroad. Mounting Sectional Crises: The Crime Against Kansas; Forging the Republican Party; Critical Years 1857 - 1859. PART TWO: THE CIVIL WAR 1860 - 1865: War Erupts 1860 - 1861: Battle by Ballot: Election of 1860; Dark Winter of Secession; Lincoln Braves the Storm over Sumter; Turmoil in the Borderland; Why War; Combatants Gird for war: Manpower and Resources. The Fighting Rages 1861 - 1863: Struggle on Sea and Land 1861 - 1862; Union Gains in the West 1862; Confederate Success - Union Despair in the East 1862; Union Crescendo at Vicksburg and Gettysburg 1863. War Becomes Revolution 1863 - 1865: The Home Front: Mobilizing for War; War Reshapes Law and Constitution; Death Blow to Slavery; The Negro and the War. The Fighting Ends: Politics Abroad: Keeping Europe Neutral; Politics at Home: Reshaping the Economy; The Bloody Road to Appomattox 1864 - 1865. PART THREE: RECONSTRUCTION 1865 - 1877: Restoring the Union Under Lincoln 1862 - 1865: Wartime Beginnings of Reconstruction; War's Aftermath; Presidential Reconstruction: Lincoln Style. Congress Makes a New Start 1865 - 1866: Presidential Reconstruction: Johnson Style; Congress Checks President Johnson; Radical Republicans Gain Allies; Congress Takes Command: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Critical Election of 1866. Revolution at Full Speed: 1866 - 1868: Radical Reconstruction at Full Throttle; Fight for Negro Rights; Radicals and the Presidency 1868. New Road in the South - Distractions in the North 1869 - 1873: The South Starts a New Path; Southern Whites Fight Back and Congress Answers; Northern Distractions Dim the Spotlight on the South; Economic Expansion Moves Ahead. Revolution Abandoned 1873 - 1877: Business Panic and Politics; Reunion and Reaction - Making a President and Unmaking a Revolution; and Aftermath of the Compromise of 1877; followed by a bibliographic essay and an index..