Reunion without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction: 1865-1868

Abstract

Part I. Conciliation and conflict: 1. Defiant optimism Part II. Encouraging Southern loyalty, 1865: 2. The Provisional Governors 3. Strategies for readmission 4. Discretion decentralized 5. Misrepresentation Part III. Seeking Southern co-operation, 1866: 6. Anticipation 7. The South courted 8. 'Masterly inactivity' Part IV. Determining Southern acquiescence 1867-1868: 9. Reconstruction enjoined - March to July 1867 10. Reconstruction resisted - July to December 1867.