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The Reconstruction Era the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union remains, as Eric Foner suggested, America s unfinished revolution. But Reconstruction is more than a story of racial injustice; it has left a complex legacy involving both whites and blacks, Southerners and Northerners, that is reflected today by the fact that the overwhelming number of states with the high- est rates of poverty were part of the former Confederacy. In Southern Reconstruction, Philip Leigh examines the legislation enacted during and immediately after the Civil War, and the administrations of presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, to broaden our understanding of Reconstruction.



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Philip Leigh

Phil Leigh (1947 - ) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and has mostly worked as a computer industry stock analyst. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University.

From 2012 to 2015 has contributed twenty-four articles to The New York Times Disunion Series, which commemorated the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. He was one of Disunion's most frequent contributors.

In 2013 Westholme Publishing released an annotated and illustrated version of the memoirs of Confederate Private Sam Watkins entitled "Co. Aytch." Phil wrote the Foreword and annotations.

In May 2014 Westholme published Phil's Civil War "Trading With the Enemy", which is about intersectional commerce between the North and South during the Civil War.

In May 2015 Westholme released his third Civil War book, "Lee's Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies."

In May 2016 Westholme published his third Civil War book, "The Confederacy at Flood Tide."

Phil offers a number of self-publised books at Amazon in both Kindle and soft-cover editions. Readers wanting to publish their own books will find "From Microsoft Word to Kindle Publishing" helpful because it includes instructional videos.

Two more of Phil's self-published Civil War books are (1) "Three Months in the Southern States: Illustrated and Annotated" and (2) "Olustee and Florida's Cattle Wars." The first one is the diary of a British officer who observed the War during the pivotal summer of 1863 and includes 178 annotations by Phi. The second is a "Kindle Single" of 22-pages that narrates Florida's Civil War history during the second half of the War.



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