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11. Reconstruction (1865-1877)

Carroll, John M., ed. Custer in Texas, An Interrupted Narrative: Including Narratives of the First Iowa Cavalry, the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, the Second Wisconsin Cavalry, and the Military Mutiny in Custer’s Command while in Louisiana. New York: S. Lewis, 1975. (Partly written by Elizabeth Bacon Custer [wife of George].) RGC: E 467.1 .C99 C82 1975

Clark, Judith Freeman. America’s Gilded Age: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992. (Traces the history of the United States from 1865 to 1901 through memoirs, diaries, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.) NRG: E 661 .C57 1992

Custer, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. (Reprint of 1893 edition. Describes overland trip of author, husband, and federal troops southwestward from Washington, D.C. Louisiana and Texas at end of Civil War, sojourn in Austin until end of January, 1866, then travel back to Washington, then later to Colorado and Kansas. Author comments on attitudes of southerners about the first few months of Reconstruction.) CYP: F 594 .C986 1994

Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. (Abridged for the modern reader.) Reprinted, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1971. (Written in the late 1870s. Chapter 45 deals with Reconstruction.) CYP, RGC: E 487 .D263 1961

Foster, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane Foster, Teacher of the Freedmen: A Diary and Letters. Edited by Wayne E. Reilly. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990. (Author, from Maine, taught in West Virginia and South Carolina in 1865-1866.) NRG: HQ 1121 .F68 1990

Fox, Tryphena Blanche. A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Fox, 1856-1876. (Women’s Letters and Diaraies of the Nineteenth-Century South.) Edited by Wilma King. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. (Author was Massachusetts born and bred.The letters reveal much about middle-class Southern life and detail how Fox quickly adopted the customs, prejudices, and politics of the South.The post-Civil War letters, written from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, begin on p. 142.) RGC: E 445 .L8 F68 1993

Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc. A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888. Edited by Mary D. Robertson. (Women’s Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. (The Reconstruction material begins on p. 76. Just after the Civil War the author lived in South Carolina, then moved with her husband to Savannah, Georgia in 1869.) RVS: E 605 .H56 1992

King, Edward. The Great South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. (First published in 1875. Record of journeys in all of the ex-slave states except Delaware plus the Indian Territory. Emphasis on the freedmen.) NRG, RGC: F 215 .K52 1972

Romero, Matias. A Mexican View of America in the 1860s: A Foreign Diplomat Describes the Civil War and Reconstruction. Translated by Thomas Schoonover, with the assistance of Ebba Wesener Schoonover. Schoonover. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. RGC: E 464 .C672513 1991

Sterling, Dorothy, ed. The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. NRG: E 185.2 .T83

Tourgee, Albion Winegar. The Invisible Empire. (The Library of Southern Civilization.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989 (Originally published as Part II of an expanded edition of Tourgee’s A Fool’s Errand [1880]. Non-ficton depiction of post-Civil War terrorist organizations in the South collectively known as the Ku Klux Klan. Technically not a primary source, but is based almost entirely on the report of a congressional investigation in 1871 of violence in the former Confederate states. Extensive quotations from the report, although some are actually paraphrases. For the report itself, titled, “Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States” [Washington, 1872], see Senate Reports, 42nd Cong., 2nd Sess., No. 41, or House Reports, 42nd Cong; 2nd Sess; No. 22 in the Serials Set in UT’s PCL Microforms Department, Level l.) CYP: HS 2330 .K63 T6 1989 (3-day reserve)

Trefousse, Hans L., ed. Background for Radical Reconstruction: Testimony Taken from the Hearings of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, the Select Committee on the Memphis Riots and Massacres, and the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots-1866 and 1867. (Testimony of the Times: Selections from Congressional Hearings.) Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. RGC: E 185.2 .T8 1970

(See also The United States: Federalist Era through 1877; African Americans in United States History, 1600s-1877.)

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