Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction

by James K. Hogue

No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James K. Hogue explains the unique confluence of demographics, geography, and wartime events that made New Orleans an epicenter in the upheaval of Reconstruction politics and a critical battleground in the struggle for the future of southern society. No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807143618
• ISBN13: 9780807143612
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"