Status
Available
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Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1985.
Description
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the returning foot soldiers of the defeated army, hungry and without hope, raided the already impoverished countryside for food and clothing. In the wake of the devastation that followed surrender, even some of the most virulent Yankee-haters found themselves relieved as the Union army began to bring a
Language
Original publication date
1985
Physical description
xiv, 285 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0807112046 / 9780807112045