The Civil War Confiscation Acts
Subtitle: failing to reconstruct the South
By: John Syrett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Reconstructing America,; no. 10; Reconstructing America (Series) ;; no. 10.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Confiscations and contributions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The First Confiscation Act; title: The Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents; title: The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result; title: Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and bates; title: Early military confiscation; title: Rules of war and later military confiscation; title: The Treasury's part in confiscation; title: The politics of confiscation; title: Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation; title: Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures; title: Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration.