Background
III, Joseph Green Dawson, was born on September 22, 1945 in Bedford, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph Green Junior and Susan Wheeler (Hubbell) D.
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The U.S. Army faced extraordinary problems while policing the post-Civil War South, and the task may have been most difficult in Louisiana, where Reconstruction lasted longer than in any other of the former Confederate states. Beginning with General Benjamin Franklin Butler, who boasted that "in six months New Orleans should be a Union city or - a home of the alligators, " the Union generals who commanded Louisiana met with varying degrees of success in their attempts to enforce the constantly evolving Reconstruction policies of three administrations on a people who openly despised their conquerors. Covering the period from the fall of New Orleans to Federal forces through the collapse of Stephen Packard's Republican government in 1877, Army Generals and Reconstruction, by Joseph G. Dawson III, is a history and a detailed analysis of the army's responsibilities, accomplishments, and failures in Reconstruction Louisiana. Dawson shows how the decisions and attitudes of the army commanders were crucial to both the Republican and Democratic parties and how neither side could act confidently without knowing first how the generals would respond to their actions. He examines the army commanders' efforts to ensure that blacks and Republicans could exercise their civil and political rights, and he looks at the influence General Philip Sheridan exerted on Louisiana Reconstruction politics - both during his supervision of the state and after President Andrew Johnson reassigned him elsewhere. Based on a close examination of archival sources, Army Generals and Reconstruction reveals the full complexity of the army's involvement in this tumultuous period in Louisiana politics.
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III, Joseph Green Dawson, was born on September 22, 1945 in Bedford, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph Green Junior and Susan Wheeler (Hubbell) D.
Bachelor in History, Louisiana State University, 1967; Master of Arts in History, Louisiana State University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy in History, Louisiana State University, 1978.
Instructor history, Louisiana State University, Eunice, 1978-1979; assistant professor of history, Texas A & M U., Galveston, 1979-1985; associate professor of history, Texas A & M U., College Station, since 1985; director Military Studies Institute, Texas A & M U., College Station, since 1986.
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Member Louisiana History Association (board directors since 1993), Society for Military History (Moncado awards committee since 1993), Inter-University Seminary on Armed Forces and Society, Southern History Association, Western History Association.
Married Beverly Stokes, January 25, 1969. Children: Ashley Lois, Joseph Everette.