The Civil War Confiscation Acts failing to reconstruct the South / [electronic resource] :
John Syrett.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Fordham University Press, c2005.
- xiii, 282 p.
- Reconstructing America, no. 10 1523-4606 ; .
- Reconstructing America (Series) ; no. 10. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The First Confiscation Act -- The Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents -- The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result -- Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and bates -- Early military confiscation -- Rules of war and later military confiscation -- The Treasury's part in confiscation -- The politics of confiscation -- Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation -- Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures -- Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration.
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United States--History--Confiscations and contributions.--Civil War, 1861-1865