v. 20. Hosmer, James Kendall. Appeal to arms.
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A work with which its successor, “Outcome of the civil war,” is intended to afford a brief, compact and impartial view of the military and civil side of the civil war. Not so much a study of contestants’ motives as their behavior on the field. Dr. Hosmer says “I have tried to criticize men in the light of their opportunities at the time.”
v. 21. Hosmer, James Kendall. Outcome of the civil war.
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Although independent in field and in arrangement, this volume is a continuation of Dr. Hosmer’s “Appeal to arms,” the foregoing volume of this series. It takes up the story from midsummer, 1863 and carries it forward to the surrender of Lee, the collapse of the confederacy and the assassination of Lincoln.
v. 22. Dunning, William Archibald. Reconstruction, political and economic.
This volume is the first in the last group of the series devoted to “National expansion.” The purpose of the study is “to show that reconstruction, with all its hardships and inequities, was not deliberately planned as punishment and humiliation for those formerly in rebellion.” It deals with “the stormy administration of Johnson, the year of trouble and unrest in the south, the gradual recovery from the strain of war, the great industrial developments, and railroad building to the Pacific, the stormy Hayes-Tilden contest.”
v. 23. Sparks, Edwin Erie. National development (1877–1885).
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