UINED LAND: The End of the Civil War in America
Golay, Michael
John Wiley & Sons: (1999)

Nominated for the Lincoln Prize, awarded for the best work of American history published in 1999.

In the wake of Sherman's march, the Southern heartland was charred ruin and the old social system in a state of collapse. North and South, millions of soldiers were demobilized and reabsorbed into civilian life. Issues of war guilt and expiation were settled in a Washington where the atmosphere had been poisoned by Lincoln's murder. Bold and idealistic attempts to educate and resettle former slaves were launched on the Sea Islands only to be sacrificed to provide spoils to the victors. Particularly in the area of race relations, we still feel the aftershocks of the convulsions the nation went through during that tumultuous 14-month period. Although some of the military campaigns and specific events have been covered in other books, none has the near epic scope of RUINED LAND or successfully brings the era alive through the eyes of ordinary people at the very epicenter of events.

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