Below is an excerpt from the novel, And Wait For The Night by JohnWilliam Corrington:
Either there would be two nations (and possibly a dozen since there was already talk of Louisiana’s secession from the Confederacy when the danger from the North was put down), each struggling, plotting, threatening the other over expansion into the western lands, over commercial matters, over boundaries, over all the trivia of government which means so much to clerks and so little to the people who must pay for the quarrels and the clerking. Either that, or there would be a single monolithic giant of a nation with its heart in New York, its brain in Washington and its cells, the states themselves, only ciphers, only shadow governments to pass dicta from the central rulers to the people ruled.
Google review (partial):
"...is not primarily about the war. It is about Reconstruction, the twelve-year occupation of the Confederate States that followed their defeat."
"Under Reconstruction, the surviving Southerners found their Confederate money worthless, their land taken for unpaid taxes, and their civil government replaced by military fiat. And there was one further loss: the communal agreement that a Southerner should live his life with honor. Without any hope of redress by day, the survivors forgot their honor and responded by forming secret societies that waited for the night to take vengeance against their oppressors. Major Edward Malcolm Sentell, a paroled CSA officer, tries to maintain his honor but finds himself despised by his fellow Southerners and helpless to stop the looming conflict between them and the occupying Federal forces."
Either there would be two nations (and possibly a dozen since there was already talk of Louisiana’s secession from the Confederacy when the danger from the North was put down), each struggling, plotting, threatening the other over expansion into the western lands, over commercial matters, over boundaries, over all the trivia of government which means so much to clerks and so little to the people who must pay for the quarrels and the clerking. Either that, or there would be a single monolithic giant of a nation with its heart in New York, its brain in Washington and its cells, the states themselves, only ciphers, only shadow governments to pass dicta from the central rulers to the people ruled.
Google review (partial):
"...is not primarily about the war. It is about Reconstruction, the twelve-year occupation of the Confederate States that followed their defeat."
"Under Reconstruction, the surviving Southerners found their Confederate money worthless, their land taken for unpaid taxes, and their civil government replaced by military fiat. And there was one further loss: the communal agreement that a Southerner should live his life with honor. Without any hope of redress by day, the survivors forgot their honor and responded by forming secret societies that waited for the night to take vengeance against their oppressors. Major Edward Malcolm Sentell, a paroled CSA officer, tries to maintain his honor but finds himself despised by his fellow Southerners and helpless to stop the looming conflict between them and the occupying Federal forces."
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