The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War

Introduction : An Unfinished War / G. Ward Hubbs -- A Victory Spoiled : West Tennessee Unionists During Reconstruction / Derek W. Frisby -- I Wanted A Gun : Black Soldiers And White Violence In Civil War And Postwar Kentucky And Missouri / Aaron Astor -- The Rebel Spirit In Kentucky : The Politics Of Readjustment In A Border State, 1865-1868 / Anne E. Marshall -- The Crucible Of Reconstruction : Unionists And The Struggle For Alabama's Postwar Home Front / Margaret M. Storey -- A New Field Of Labor : Antislavery Women, Freedmen's Aid, And Political Power / Carol Faulkner -- Objects Of Humanity : The White Poor In Civil War And Reconstruction Georgia / Denise E. Wright -- Racial Identity And Reconstruction : New Orleans's Free People Of Color And The Dilemma Of Emancipation / Justin A. Nystrom -- My Children On The Field : Wade Hampton, Biography, And The Roots Of The Lost Cause / Rod Andrew, Jr -- Rebels In War And Peace : Their Ethos And Its Impact / Jason K. Phillips -- Reconstructing Loyalty : Love, Fear, And Power In The Postwar South / Carole Emberton -- Reconstructing The Nation, Reconstructing The Party : Postwar Republicans And The Evolution Of A Party / Michael Green. Edited By Paul A. Cimbala And Randall M. Miller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.