War After the War: A New History of Reconstruction

by John Patrick Daly

Book Overview

The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820361909
• ISBN13: 9780820361901
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great honest history of Reconstruction

John Daly refers to the Reconstruction era as the Southern Civil War and convincingly argues the violence that encompassed the South upheld every aspect of what constitutes a civil war. Daly breaks the Southern Civil War into three distinct phases within the Reconstruction era. The Terror Phase immediately followed the Confederate surrender of 1865, the Guerrilla Phase, 1868-1872, with disguised violence and creation of the KKK and other extremist groups, and the Paramilitary Phase, 1873-1877, where Southern extremists openly inflicted violence without local, state, or federal prosecution. Daly highlights the fact that the tens of thousands of African Americans, Southern Unionists and Northern sympathizers which were tragically abused, murdered, and massacred have been neglected in Southern historical narratives, and he has exposed the dark realities of the Southern Civil War. With the supporting evidence Daly provides in The War after the War, Daly has a strong argument that the Southern Civil War didn’t end in 1877, but in the 1960’s with the Civil Rights movement. A great book for anyone interested in reading an honest history of what transpired in the South after the American Civil War.