TY - GEN T1 - With charity for all : Lincoln and the restoration of the Union A1 - Harris, William C. (William Charles), 1933- LA - English PP - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky YR - 1997 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900344950 AB - Although Reconstruction is usually associated with the period after the Civil War, it may be said to have begun when Abraham Lincoln, in his 1861 inaugural address, announced his intention to preserve the Union. The first comprehensive examination of wartime Reconstruction, With Charity for All offers a bold new interpretation of Lincoln's efforts to restore the seceded Southern states to the Union while the Civil War raged. Based in part upon his extensive research in the Library of Congress's Abraham Lincoln Papers, William C. Harris maintains that Lincoln - who preferred the term restoration to reconstruction - held a fundamentally conservative position on the process of reintegrating the South, one that permitted a large measure of self-reconstruction. Reasoning that individuals, not states, had rebelled, Lincoln sought to replace those who had usurped constitutional authority with white Southern Unionists who would restore legitimate governments in their states. Beginning with the elevation of Lincoln's policies, describes what happened when military and civil agents tried to implement them, and evaluates the president's successes and failures in attempting a quick restoration of the Southern states to their "proper practical relation with the Union." CN - E668 .H37 1997 SN - 9780813158525 SN - 0813158524 SN - 0813120071 SN - 9780813120072 SN - 081310971X SN - 9780813109718 KW - Lincoln, Abraham, : 1809-1865. KW - Lincoln, Abraham, : 1809-1865 KW - Lincoln, Abraham. KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - United States : Politics and government : 1861-1865. KW - États-Unis : Politique et gouvernement : 1861-1865. KW - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : General. KW - HISTORY : United States : General. KW - Politics and government KW - United States KW - Föderalismus KW - Reconstruction KW - USA KW - Amerikaanse burgeroorlog. KW - Reconstruction (1865-1877) KW - Reconstruction : United States : 19th century. KW - 1861-1877 KW - History ER -