Occupied City New Orleans Under the Federals 1862 1865 1st Edition by Gerald M Capers ISBN 0813151627 9780813151625

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ISBN 10: 0813151627 
ISBN 13: 9780813151625
Author: Gerald M Capers

New Orleans is the largest American city ever occupied by enemy forces for an extended period of time. Falling to an amphibious Federal force in the spring of 1862, the city was threatened with the possibility of Confederate recapture even as late as 1864. How this tension affected the lives of both civilians and soldiers during the occupation is here examined.

Gerald M. Capers finds that the occupation policies of General Benjamin F. Butler and General Nathaniel P. Banks were successful and that Butler’s harsh policies were by no means as vicious as legend would have it. Banks at first reversed Butler’s harsh policies, but was gradually compelled to become less lenient. Banks did succeed in establishing a civil government under Lincoln’s orders, but Congress refused to recognize the civil government and imposed a reconstruction government at war’s end.

Life for the average resident of New Orleans, Capers states, was much better during the occupation than it was for Southerners in areas still in Confederate control. Relative economic decline had begun in the 1850’s but New Orleans even enjoyed a war boom during the last two years. And although America’s only brief experience as an occupation force at the time had been in Vera Cruz during 1846, Butler and Banks performed their duties well.

Occupied City New Orleans Under the Federals 1862 1865 1st Table of contents:

One: The Crescent City on the Eve of the Civil War
Two: The Capture
Three: Enter General Butler
Four: The Rule of the Beast, May to December, 1962
Five: Changes in Command, 1862-1865
Six: Unionist Politics and Reconstruction Government
Seven: The Economy of a Conquered Metropolis
Eight: Press, Church, and School
Nine: Civilians and Soldiers
Ten: The Negro during the Occupation

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