The War after the War, John Patrick Daly
The War after the War, John Patrick Daly
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The War after the War
A New History of Reconstruction

Author: John Patrick Daly

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/11/2022

Synopsis

The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries battled with these coalitions and won the Southern Civil War, successfully overthrowing democratically elected governments. The repercussions of these political setbacks would be felt for decades to come.

With this book John Patrick Daly examines the political and racial battles for power after the Civil War, as white supremacist terror, guerrilla, and paramilitary groups attacked biracial coalitions in their local areas. The biracial coalition put up a brave fight against these insurrectionary forces, but the federal government offered the biracial forces little help. After dozens of battles and tens of thousands of casualties between 1865 and 1877, the Southern Civil War ended in the complete triumph of extremist insurrection and white supremacy. As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the Southern Civil War, its lessons are more vital than ever.

About John Patrick Daly

John Patrick Daly is associate professor of history at SUNY Brockport. He is the author of When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. He lives in Rochester, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jefferson

I read this book for a class. I like it a lot. Daly makes a convincing argument that the period we call Reconstruction, constituted a civil war internal to the Southern United States. He documents it's phases and it's end. While I like what it's doing, namely arguing that the conclusion to the Unite......more

Goodreads review by Timothy

Bleak but brilliant, dismal but direct, this new history captures the recent historiography of the period known as Reconstruction, 1865-1877. The book makes a strong case for rendering the period as the Southern Civil War between ex-confederate extremists and the biracial coalition over White Suprem......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn

Courageously, Daly blows the dust off long held beliefs about the U.S. Civil War and declares former Confederates victorious. With meticulous research into previously overlooked truths, the historian proves his premise: Reconstruction from 1865 to 1879 caused a dead Confederacy to “rise again.” The......more

Goodreads review by Chris

In this slim but profound book John Daly has provided an inestimable contribution to both the historiography and pedagogy on Civil War and Reconstruction. Beginning with a brief but thorough overview of both the myths and the current state of Reconstruction scholarship, Daly constructs a strong inte......more

Goodreads review by Christopher

John Daly refers to the Reconstruction era as the Southern Civil War and convincingly argues the violence that encompassed the South upheld every aspect of what constitutes a civil war. Daly breaks the Southern Civil War into three distinct phases within the Reconstruction era. The Terror Phase imme......more

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