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Dissertation Information for Mark L. Bradley

NAME:
- Mark L. Bradley

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) (2006)

ADVISORS:
- William L. Barney

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Richard H. Korn
- Joseph T. Glatthaar
- R. Don Higginbotham
- William C. Harris

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Bluecoats and Tar Heels: The transition from war to peace in North Carolina, 1865--1877

Abstract: This study focuses on civil-military relations in North Carolina within the framework of the state's protracted and often violent transition from war to peace during Reconstruction. The underlying assumption is that the conflict did not end with the collapse of Confederate resistance in April 1865. It was within this violent landscape that the U.S. Army commenced its postwar occupation of North Carolina. Throughout Reconstruction, the army's mission consisted of four objectives: to keep the peace, protect blacks and white loyalists, implement Federal policy, and conciliate former Confederates. The process of conciliation began with the generous initial surrender agreement drafted by Union Major General William T. Sherman, a commander better known for his devastating marches through Georgia and the Carolinas. Though faced with many dangerous and daunting obstacles, including outlaws such as the Regulators and the Ku Klux Klan, Federal officers continued to conciliate their former enemies throughout the army's twelve-year occupation of North Carolina. The army's presence in the Tar Heel State was marked by uneven success in accomplishing its mission. During the ex-Confederates' long---and ultimately successful---struggle for dominance, the army proved more successful in promoting sectional reconciliation than in preserving the civil and political rights of the freedpeople. The rapprochement of Federal soldiers and white North Carolinians in the mid 1870s has been hidden from view by a barrage of Lost Cause propaganda, leading present-day historians to the erroneous conclusion that the process of national reunion began long after Reconstruction.

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