As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the people of the South, particularly of recently fallen Richmond, mourned.
Starting with Lincoln\'s assassination and continuing up through the harsh realities of occupation through the summer of 1866, authors Thomas and Debra Goodrich trace the history of reconstruction in the south-the death, destruction, crime, star.
The Union, though preserved, would not easily be healed.
The South was about to enter a period of extreme turmoil reconstruction.
As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the people of the South, particularly of recently fallen Richmond, mourned