Sheridan's secret mission : how the South won the war after the Civil War / Robert Cwiklik.
An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent param...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue: The best, the bravest, and the purest
- There is love enough
- "The swing of old soldiers"
- Yankee panky
- Sympathy for the junta
- Invaders
- Fear of a black state
- "A trip south might be agreeable"
- A local club
- Kangaroo quorum
- "The genius of smallness"
- War in peacetime
- Making martyrs
- "A reproach upon the state and country"
- "Peaceably if possible, forcibly if necessary"
- "Occasionally there were a few necks broken"
- Epilogue: "The whole power of government".