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11. Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Carroll, John M., ed. Custer in Texas, An Interrupted
Narrative: Including Narratives of the First Iowa Cavalry, the
Seventh Indiana Cavalry, the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, the Second
Wisconsin Cavalry, and the Military Mutiny in Custer's Command
while in Louisiana. New York: S. Lewis, 1975. (Partly written
by Elizabeth Bacon Custer [wife of George].) RGC: E 467.1 .C99
C82 1975
Clark, Judith Freeman. America's Gilded Age: An Eyewitness
History. New York: Facts on File, 1992. (Traces the history
of the United States from 1865 to 1901 through memoirs, diaries,
letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.) NRG:
E 661 .C57 1992
Custer, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains, or, General Custer
in Kansas and Texas. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. (Reprint
of 1893 edition. Describes overland trip of author, husband, and
federal troops southwestward from Washington, D.C. Louisiana and
Texas at end of Civil War, sojourn in Austin until end of January,
1866, then travel back to Washington, then later to Colorado and
Kansas. Author comments on attitudes of southerners about the
first few months of Reconstruction.) CYP: F 594 .C986 1994
Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
(Abridged for the modern reader.) Reprinted, Gloucester, Mass.:
Peter Smith, 1971. (Written in the late 1870s. Chapter 45 deals
with Reconstruction.) CYP, RGC: E 487 .D263 1961
Foster, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane Foster, Teacher of the Freedmen:
A Diary and Letters. Edited by Wayne E. Reilly. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 1990. (Author, from Maine, taught
in West Virginia and South Carolina in 1865-1866.) NRG: HQ 1121
.F68 1990
Fox, Tryphena Blanche. A Northern Woman in the Plantation South:
Letters of Tryphena Blanche Fox, 1856-1876. (Women's Letters
and Diaraies of the Nineteenth-Century South.) Edited by Wilma
King. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. (Author
was Massachusetts born and bred.The letters reveal much about
middle-class Southern life and detail how Fox quickly adopted
the customs, prejudices, and politics of the South.The post-Civil
War letters, written from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, begin
on p. 142.) RGC: E 445 .L8 F68 1993
Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc. A Confederate Lady Comes of Age:
The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888. Edited
by Mary D. Robertson. (Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century
South.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. (The
Reconstruction material begins on p. 76. Just after the Civil
War the author lived in South Carolina, then moved with her husband
to Savannah, Georgia in 1869.) RVS: E 605 .H56 1992
King, Edward. The Great South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1972. (First published in 1875. Record of journeys
in all of the ex-slave states except Delaware plus the Indian
Territory. Emphasis on the freedmen.) NRG, RGC: F 215 .K52 1972
Romero, Matias. A Mexican View of America in the 1860s: A Foreign
Diplomat Describes the Civil War and Reconstruction. Translated
by Thomas Schoonover, with the assistance of Ebba Wesener Schoonover.
Schoonover. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
1991. RGC: E 464 .C672513 1991
Sterling, Dorothy, ed. The Trouble They Seen: Black People
Tell the Story of Reconstruction. Garden City: Doubleday,
1976. NRG: E 185.2 .T83
Tourgee, Albion Winegar. The Invisible Empire. (The Library
of Southern Civilization.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1989 (Originally published as Part II of an expanded edition
of Tourgee's A Fool's Errand [1880]. Non-ficton depiction
of post-Civil War terrorist organizations in the South collectively
known as the Ku Klux Klan. Technically not a primary source, but
is based almost entirely on the report of a congressional investigation
in 1871 of violence in the former Confederate states. Extensive
quotations from the report, although some are actually paraphrases.
For the report itself, titled, "Testimony Taken by the Joint
Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the
Late Insurrectionary States" [Washington, 1872], see Senate
Reports, 42nd Cong., 2nd Sess., No. 41, or House Reports,
42nd Cong; 2nd Sess; No. 22 in the Serials Set in UT's PCL Microforms
Department, Level l.) CYP: HS 2330 .K63 T6 1989 (3-day reserve)
Trefousse, Hans L., ed. Background for Radical Reconstruction:
Testimony Taken from the Hearings of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction,
the Select Committee on the Memphis Riots and Massacres, and the
Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots-1866 and 1867. (Testimony
of the Times: Selections from Congressional Hearings.) Boston,
Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. RGC: E 185.2 .T8 1970
(See also The United States: Federalist Era through 1877; African
Americans in United States History, 1600s-1877.)