In 1865, as it becomes clear that the war is drawing to a close, no one in Washington knows quite what to do. Abraham Lincoln cannot negotiate a treaty with a government he insists has no right to exist, but neither can he simply readmit Southern states into the Union as though nothing has happened. When will it be appropriate to bring back Southern politicians into Congress and on what terms? The South itself is devastated, physically and psychologically. Homes, factories, even whole cities are destroyed; slavery is abolished; Confederate currency is worthless; and the cause they had committed themselves to has been utterly defeated.

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end of Civil War, dilemma facing U.S. government, physical destruction in South, psychological loss, Civil War and Reconstruction, The

African-American History, American History, American Studies, U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Unfinished Nation, The

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