Название: The Army and Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War)
Издательство: Center of Military History
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 76
Язык: English
Размер: 8.2 MB
Within two months of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, the Confederacy had collapsed, and its armed forces had ceased to exist. In the spring of 1865, the U.S. Army faced the unprecedented task of occupying eleven conquered Southern states and administering “Reconstruction”—the process by which the former rebellious states would be restored to the Union. But a rapid demobilization of the Army placed the remaining occupation troops at a disadvantage almost from the start.
