num_pages: 304
description: When the War Was Over is a social and political history of the two years following the surrender of the Confederacy - the so-called period of Presidential Reconstruction when the South, under the watchful gaze of Congress and the Union army, attempted to rebuild its shattered society and economic structure. Working primarily from rich manuscript sources, Carter draws a vivid portrait of the political leaders who emerged after the war, a diverse group of men - former loyalists as well as a few mildly repentant fire-eaters - who in some cases genuinely sought to find a place in southern society for the newly emancipated slaves, but who in many other cases merely sought to redesign the boundaries of black servitude.
language: English
title: When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867
titlecomplete: When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867
genres: History
ratings_count: 18
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Jules and Frances Landry Award
publisher: LSU Press