Now that your all here, can anyone suggest a book that details the post civil war 'destruction' of the South?
In doing research on the mining camps of the Cal - Arizona and Nevada deserts, I found most the workers were southerners. Thanks in advance.
Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880, by W.E.B. DuBois.
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863- 1877, by Eric Foner.
A Short History of Reconstruction, by Eric Foner.
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877, by Kenneth M. Stampp.
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, by Leon F. Litwack.