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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.
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1 maj 2018 · The Bloody Shirt weaves together the experiences of a few men—two Union officers, a former slave, a northern entrepreneur and an ex-Confederate general—who “risked everything to try to build a new society of equality and justice” during the term of Republican rule in the South, only to be defeated in their efforts by a campaign of ...
28 sty 2008 · The victorious federal government set to work with 40-acres-and-a-mule schemes, instituting Reconstruction and appointing military and civilian governors throughout the South, some of them black. Defeated Southerners mounted resistance through groups such as, most famously, the KKK.
2 mar 2008 · Stephen Budiansky's The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox is a powerful and detailed examination of the widely-supported terrorism in the post-Civil War South.
13 sty 2009 · Right up front, I'll make something plain; Stephen Budiansky's book "The Bloody Shirt" does not attempt to break new ground about the Reconstruction era. Instead, this book is designed to revive and retell the stories of a few individuals to illustrate the experiences of many.
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.
