About This Book
The narrative, written by an Alabama resident who observed Reconstruction firsthand, recounts the immediate postwar transition from provisional to military governments and the clash between Presidential and Congressional policies. It examines the imposition of Republican and carpetbag administrations, the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Union League, and alleged corruption and mismanagement attributed to those regimes. Local white resistance, the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan, and a campaign of riots, killings, and political intimidation across several counties are described in sequence. The account concludes with the rollback of Reconstruction authorities and the reestablishment of prewar racial and political dominance as the author interprets those events.
About the Author
You May Also Like
"'Tis Sixty Years Since" / Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913
by Charles Francis Adams
"1683-1920" / The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics
by Frederick Franklin Schrader
"America for Americans!" / The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon
by John Philip Newman
"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message / With his own words which have won thousands for Christ
by William T. Ellis
"Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
"Broke," The Man Without the Dime
by Edwin A. Brown