CARPET-BAGGERS, SCALAWAGS, UNION-LEAGUES during Reconstruction

From Volume 12 of Confederate Military History Edited by CSA Veteran, Brigadier-General Clement A. Evans. General Clement A. Evans and Co-author Volume XII – Military and Post War History Confederate States Navy by Captain William Parker. Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate Brigadier General Clement A.…

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This Is A White Man’s Government

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZ62-121735 Annotation: Rights of Freed men: “This is a white man”s government” “We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as usurpations, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void” – Democratic Platform Year: 1868

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Let Us Have Peace

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-96533 Annotation: Ulysses S. Grant and Red Cloud, a great Lakota leader of the 19th century. The phrase “Let Us Have Peace” is forever linked to Grant. Year: 1870

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