What do you think were the most significant ways the Union and Confederacy’s political ends transformed the course of the war, if at all?

What do you think were the most significant ways the Union and Confederacy’s political ends transformed the course of the war, if at all? In what specific and significant ways can we consider the Reconstruction period as a culmination of these transformations? Use specific examples from the readings(Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865

Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, eds., The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It

Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, eds., The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It).