Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War by Michael P. Johnson

Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War by Michael P. Johnson

Reconstruction, the name commonly given to the period at the close of and immediately after the Civil War, refers not just to an historical era but to an objective and a process. The reconstruction of a viable Union was the North's main objective during the Civil War; how this was to be accomplished was a thorny political and constitutional, as well as military, puzzle. Aside from emancipation, Lincoln's first major steps toward reconstruction took place in December 1863, when he issued ...