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98. David Mark Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1981), 8–21; Wyn Craig Wade, The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 31–53; Powell Clayton, The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas (New York: Neale, 1915), 91–163; Ted Tunnell, Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862–1877 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984), 153; James Dauphine, “The Knights of the White Camelia and the Election of 1868: Louisiana’s White Terrorists; a Benighted Legacy,” Louisiana History 30 (Spring 1989): 173–90; George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007), 74–75.

99. Perman, Road to Redemption, 16–17, 58–60, 66; Nelson and Sheriff, A People At War, 308.

100. C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951), 166–69, 191–202, 216.

101. Walter Allen, Governor Chamberlain’s Administration in South Carolina: A Chapter of Reconstruction in the Southern States (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1888), 481; Richard Zuczek, State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996), 190–201; Current, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, 361.

102. Blanche Ames, Adelbert Ames, 1835–1933: General, Senator, Governor (North Easton, MA: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1964), 434; Current, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, 323.

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2. William F. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865 (Albany, NY: Albany Publishing Co., 1889), 526; Frederick Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer, 1908), 1:12; Vinovskis, “Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculations,” in Toward a Social History of the American Civil War, 1–12, 21–28; E. B. Long, “The People of War,” in The Civil War Day-by-Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 700–722; John William Oliver, History of the Civil War Military Pensions, 1861–1865 (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1917), 117; Francis Amasa Walker, Discussions in Economics and Statistics, Volume Two: Finance and Taxation, Money and Bimettalism, Economic Theory (New York: Henry Holt, 1899), 44; American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political for the Year 1879, ed. A. R. Spofford (Washington, DC: American News, 1880), 177, 179; The American Almanac, Year-book, Cyclopaedia and Atlas (New York: New York American and Journal, 1904), 474, 503.

3. Thomas L. Livermore, Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861–1865 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900), 5–9; Faust, This Republic of Suffering, 149; Mary Elizabeth Massey, Refugee Life in the Confederacy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001 [1964]), 64–65; J. David Hacker, “A Census-Based Count of the Civil War Dead,” Civil War History 57 (December 2011): 307–48; “By The Numbers: Civil War Mortality Reconsidered,” Civil War Monitor 1 (Winter 2011): 16–17.

4. Long, “Economics of War,” in The Civil War Day-by-Day, 700–722; Claudia D. Goldin and Frank D. Lewis, “The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and Implications,” Journal of Economic History 35 (June 1975): 299–326; Mary A. DeCredico, Patriotism for Profit: Georgia’s Urban Entrepreneurs and the Confederate War Effort (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 115; Douglas B. Ball, Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 300–301; Paul F. Paskoff, “Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War’s Destructiveness in the Confederacy,” Civil War History 54 (March 2008): 35–58.

5. Jeremy Atack and Peter Passell, A New Economic View of American History, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994), 356–60, 362–63, 373.

6. Edwin De Leon, Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad, ed. William C. Davis (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005), 1–2; Egerton, “Rethinking Atlantic Historiography,” 82–84.

7. J. Matthew Gallman, Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 299–328; Robin L. Einhorn, “The Civil War and Municipal Government in Chicago,” in Toward a Social History of the American Civil War, 132–38; Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 195–96; Harper, “If Thee Must Fight,” 363–67; Wilson, The Business of Civil War, 214–15.

8. Louis M. Hacker, The Triumph of American Capitalism: The Development of Forces in American History to the End of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947), 370–71; “Quartermaster-General,” Army and Navy Journal (December 9, 1865): 251; “Interesting Official Statistics,” Scientific American 15 (December 25, 1866): 402.

9. Paul W. Gates, Agriculture and the Civil War (New York: Knopf, 1965), 375–77; Hacker, The Triumph of American Capitalism: The Development of Forces in American History to the End of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940), 398–99; Louis R. Wells, Industrial History of the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1922), 466; R. Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2002), 133–47; Harold D. Woodman, “Post-Civil War Southern Agriculture and the Law,” Agricultural History 53 (January 1979): 319–37; H. W. Brands, Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey (New York: Free Press, 1999), 36.

10. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan, 241, 252, 282.

11. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975), 28, 30; Thomas P. Gill, “Landlordism in America,” North American Review 142 (January 1886): 60.

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