Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862--1877

by Joseph G. Dawson III

The U.S. Army faced extraordinary problems while policing the post-Civil War South, and the task may have been the most difficult in Louisiana, where Reconstruction lasted longer than in any other of the former Confederate states. Beginning with General Benjamin Franklin Butler, who boasted that "in six months New Orleans should be a Union city or--a home of the alligators," the Union generals who commanded Louisiana would meet with varying degrees...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807119601
• ISBN13: 9780807119600
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"