The Civil War and Reconstruction [Second Edition]

Prof. J. G. Randall, Prof. David Donald

• Publisher: Golden Springs Publishing
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781787200272
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

This is a revised edition by David Herbert Donald of his former professor J. G. Randall's book The Civil War and Reconstruction, which was originally published in 1937 and had long been regarded as "the standard work in its field", serving as a useful basic Civil War reference tool for general readers and textbook for college classes. This Second Edition retains many of the original chapters, "such as those treating border-state problems, non-military developments during the war, intellectual tendencies, anti-war efforts, religious and educational movements, and propaganda methods […] bearing evidence of Mr. Randall's thoroughgoing exploration of the manuscripts and archives, " whilst it expands considerably on other original chapters, such as those relating to the Confederacy. Still other portions have been entirely recast or rewritten, such as the pre-war period chapters and Reconstruction chapters, reflecting factual updates since Randall's original publication. A must-read for all Civil War students and scholars.

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{1} The total land area of the United States in 1840 was 1,754,622 square miles; in 1850 it was 2,943,142. The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 increased the total to 2,974,159. A Century of Population Growth (Bur. of the Census, 1909), 54. In the following pages the frequently cited Mississippi Valley Historical Review will be referred to as M.V.H.R. and the Journal of Southern History as J.S.H.

{2} J. C. G. Kennedy, Preliminary Report on the Eighth Census, 1860, 131.

{3} Calculated from figures in Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945, 27.

{4} Ella Lonn, Foreigners in the Confederacy, 8.

{5} A Century of Population Growth (Bur. of Census, 1909), 143.

{6} U.S. Census, 1860, “Population,” 662, 670.

{7} In each case the figures are for 1849 and 1859. Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945, 106, 109.

{8} Yet by 1860 McCormick had more than a hundred rivals in the reaper machine business. Dict. Of Am. Biogr., XI, 607.

{9} W. T. Hutchinson, Cyrus Hall McCormick: Seed-Time, 1809-1856, 468.

{10} A. C. Cole, The Irrepressible Conflict, 102.

{11} Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, 481, 645.

{12} Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union, II, 216.

{13} Diary of Philip Hone, Aug. II, 1845. Hone was a New York merchant, civic leader, and society lion whose diary is one of the finest records of American life from 1828 to 1851. The whole diary has never been published; the best edition is by Allen Nevins (1927.)

{14} America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer, 79‒80.

{15} The figure for 1855. Appleton’s American Annual Cyclopedia, 1861, 449, 646.

{16} J. C. G. Kennedy, Preliminary Report on the Eighth Census, 1860, 169, 171, 185.

{17} U.S. Census, 1860, “Statistics...,” 331. For slightly variant figures, see Historical Statistics of the U.S., 200.

{18} William Brown Meloney, The Heritage of Tyre, 68.

{19} Diary of Philip Hone, Sept. 16, 1843.

{20} Meloney, 89.

{21} America in the Forties: The Letters of Ole Munch Raeder, Trans. By G. J. Malmin, 78.

{22} Richards...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• PREFACE
• MAPS AND GRAPHS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• THE DIVIDED UNION
• THE RESTORED UNION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER