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xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our book would not have been possible without generous assistance from numerous archivists and librarians. Those at the National Archives and the Library of Congress guided us to key record groups and correspondence relating to the military occupation Congress established in the postwar South. Professionals at a multitude of state and local institutions were of great assistance in our research as well. For assistance in our research on the Alabama and Arkansas conventions, we are indebted to staff at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library of the University of Alabama, the Arkansas State Library , and to Andrea Cantrell of the University of Arkansas Libraries. Our work on the Florida convention was facilitated by staff at the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida, the New York State Library (Albany, New York), the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (Springfield, Illinois), and the United States Military History Institute (Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania). Librarians and archivists at the Georgia Department of Archives and at the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections at Louisiana State University ’s Hill Memorial Library assisted greatly in the research for our accounts of the Georgia and Louisiana conventions, as did Dorothy Anne Roth with the Etowah Valley Historical Society (Cartersville, Georgia) and Una S. Paul of the Catahoula Parish Library (Harrisonburg, Louisiana ). Personnel at the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History in Jackson and at both the Southern Historical Collection and the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were especially forthcoming in their assistance with our work on the conventions in their respective states. So, too, were librarians and archivists at the South Caroliniana Collection at the University of South Carolina, the Texas State Library and Archives, the Library of Virginia, and the Valentine Richmond History Center. Two former faculty in the Department of History at the University of Washington—Robert E. Burke and Otis A. Pease—assisted in the initial formulation of this study; so did Seattle native George W. Scott, a longtime friend and former state senator who continues his lifelong interest in the ways in which politics operate at the state level. Here in Pullman at Washington State University, Cerci Lee Anderson, Eric Carter, Pauline Lilje, Jill Palmer, Susan Vetter, Siegfried Vogt, and Louis Vyhnanek—all in Holland Library—have spent hours leading us through government serial sets, microfilmed rolls of manuscript federal census returns, and items obtained through interlibrary loan. Staff in the History Department office here in Wilson xii Hall—Dwayne Dehlbom, Diane Triplett, Patricia Thorsten, and Mary Wysong—have likewise devoted hours of their time to our project. A number of our colleagues—LeRoy Ashby, David Coon, Herman Deutsch, Thomas Kennedy, Richard Law, Thomas Pesek, Orlan Svingen, and Richard S. Williams—have also offered unflagging encouragement. So, too, have departmental and college administrators John E. Kicza, Erich Lear, Raymond Muse, Roger Schlesinger, and David Stratton, who also provided assistance in obtaining financial support for our project . Several students—including Diana Armstrong, Jeremy Hume, Sandy Kellogg, Jeffrey Rombauer , and Jennifer Walton—have likewise assisted greatly in bringing this project along. Much of our manuscript, as is obvious in our notes and bibliography, has been built upon a foundation of the scholarship of others. Our research has also been supported financially by a number of grants from Washington State University, by a Shell Oil Corporation Faculty Improvement Grant, and by summer grants-in-aid from both the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. We alone, however, are solely responsible for any errors in our work. We conclude by acknowledging seven people who were particularly helpful in bringing this project to fruition. Paul H. Hagner, a former member of the political science department at Washington State University (now at Albion College in Michigan), devised the methodology for classifying the voting behavior of delegates. Lisa Hawkins, a student office assistant in our department, designed two of our three appendixes—one of them incorporating Hagner’s data on delegate voting and the other providing biographical information on delegates. Mary Lee Eggart, a research associate in the Geography and Anthropology Department at Louisiana State University, drew our maps, indicating clearly the delegate districts into which the ten states of our study were divided by military authorities. At Columbia University, Eric Foner offered insightful comments following his reading of an earlier version of our manuscript; an anonymous reader...

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