Lincoln and Reconstruction (John C. Rodrigue - LL) 1938 Poignant archive photography is used

Poignant archive photography is used throughout the book

Johnston’s army inflicted heavy losses on Sherman’s forces at the Battle of Bentonville in March 1865

Many former reference books were too much North or too much South

In this engaging

Lincoln and Reconstruction (John C. Rodrigue - LL) 1938 Poignant archive photography is usedby John C. Rodrigue Although Abraham Lincoln dominates the literature on the American Civil War, he remains less commonly associated with reconstruction. Previous scholarly works touch on Lincoln and reconstruction, but they tend either to speculate on what Lincoln might have done after the war had he not been assassinated or to approach his reconstruction plans merely as a means of winning the war. In this thought provoking study, John C. Rodrigue