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Reconstruction in Missouri
By Fred DeArmond
The most persistently controversial phase of the Civil War
was the Reconstruction period. Partisans learned to discuss calmly
the battles and the generals, but their voices and blood pressure
rose over the war's aftermath.
For almost one hundred years Confederate partisans could
say with justification that while the South lost the war on the battlefield, it won the battle of the books. It was not until the centennial commemoration of the 1960s that recognized historians
began to revise their evaluation of Reconstruction. Perhaps in no
other aspect has the judgment of American historiography been
so reversed. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
James Ford Rhodes, John W. Burgess and William A. Dunning
took the orthodox position, slavishly followed by nearly all historians until 1960, that the prostrate South had been raped by a
victorious and vindictive Congress during the post-war years. During the Civil War Centennial, however, a succession of carefully
researched books by recognized historical scholars questioned and
refuted both the premises and the conclusions of the classical
authorities.1 The revisionist view emphasized these findings:
1. None of the Confederate states were subjected to Negro
rule. There was no Negro state governor and no legislature
dominated by Negroes.2
i Eric L. McKitrick, Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (Chicago, 1960) ;
John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction
After the Civil War (Chicago, 1961) ;
Benjamin Piatt Thomas and Harold
M. Hyman, Stanton: The Life & Times
of Lincoln's Secretary of War (New
York, 1962) ; W. R. Brock, An American Crisis (New York, 1963) ; La Wanda
& John Cox, Politics, Principle and
Prejudice, 1865-1866 (Glencoe, 111.,
1963) ; Kenneth M. Stampp, The Era of
Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (New York,
1965).
2 Stampp, Era of Reconstruction, 167.
Fred DeArmond is editor and
co-owner of The Mycroft Press,
Springfield, Missouri. He was formerly associate editor of Nation's
Business, Washington, D. C. He is
the author of a number of books
on management, marketing, labor
relations and other topics; a freelance writer and a contributor to
journals of business and economics.
Object Description
| Title | Missouri Historical Review, Volume 61 Issue 3, April 1967 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Month | April |
| Year | 1967 |
| Publisher | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
| Publisher-Electronic | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
| Rights | Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008 |
| ISSN | 0026-6581 |