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24 sty 2008 · His latest book is The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox, which chronicles the struggles of five courageous men in the post-Civil War South as they battled a rising tide of terrorist violence aimed at usurping the newly won rights of the freedmen.
30 gru 2008 · The Bloody Shirt sheds new light on the violence, racism, division, and heroism of Reconstruction, a largely forgotten but epochal chapter in American history.
1 maj 2018 · The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox. by Stephen Budiansky, Viking, 2008, 311 pages, $27.95. For all the arguments and controversies regarding the Civil War that have raged over the better part of the past century, popular and scholarly writers express remarkable unanimity on one key aspect: The war ended in the summer of 1865.
30 gru 2008 · Budiansky says at least 3,000 Americans were murdered in the 1865 to 1876 terror campaign. But terror isn't an end in itself; ideas imposed by terror need more terror to survive. Thousands died in lynchings and other murders that lasted into the 1960s with the killings of civil rights workers in Mississippi.
Budiansky, Stephen The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox. Viking, $27.95 hardcover ISBN 9780670018406 The Battlefield of Reconstruction Published on the heels of Nicholas Lemann’s Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006), Stephen Budiansky reinforces the sad story of the
The Bloody Shirt sheds new light on the violence, racism, division, and heroism of Reconstruction, a largely forgotten but epochal chapter in American history.
1 wrz 2008 · The bloody shirt belonged to Allen Huggins, a Mississippi carpetbagger who was whipped by the Ku Klux Klan. Allegedly, Benjamin F. Butler waved Huggins's bloodstained nightshirt on the floor of Congress to demonstrate the violence against southern Republicans.
