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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777671703321

Autore

Syrett John <1942->

Titolo

The Civil War Confiscation Acts [[electronic resource] ] : failing to reconstruct the South / / John Syrett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8232-4085-1

0-8232-4758-9

0-8232-2491-0

1-4294-7887-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 282 p. )

Collana

Reconstructing America, , 1523-4606 ; ; no. 10

Disciplina

973.7/14

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Confiscations and contributions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The First Confiscation Act -- The Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents -- The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result -- Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and bates -- Early military confiscation -- Rules of war and later military confiscation -- The Treasury's part in confiscation -- The politics of confiscation -- Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation -- Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures -- Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration.

Sommario/riassunto

This is an account of two significant laws passed during the US Civil War, The Confiscation Acts (1861-62). It examines the political contexts, especially the debates in Congress, and how the failure of the Confiscation Acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction afterwards.