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Barcode31662001752336
LocationWinamac
TitleSheridan's secret mission : how the South won the war after the Civil War / Robert Cwiklik. First edition. Ed
AuthorCwiklik, Robert, author.
Call No973.82 CWI
CollectionAdult 900-999
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780062950642 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0062950649 (hardcover)
Personal Name Cwiklik, Robert, author.
Title Statement Sheridan's secret mission : how the South won the war after the Civil War / Robert Cwiklik.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2024.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Physical Description viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier.
Associated Language Book tlcgt.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Prologue: The best, the bravest, and the purest -- There is love enough -- "The swing of old soldiers" -- Yankee panky -- Sympathy for the junta -- Invaders -- Fear of a black state -- "A trip south might be agreeable" -- A local club -- Kangaroo quorum -- "The genius of smallness" -- War in peacetime -- Making martyrs -- "A reproach upon the state and country" -- "Peaceably if possible, forcibly if necessary" -- "Occasionally there were a few necks broken" -- Epilogue: "The whole power of government".
Summary, Etc. An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.
Subject-Personal Name Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.
Subject United States. Army Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans Southern States History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Generals United States Biography.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies. lcgft.
Location 973.82 CWI 31662001752336

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