The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
by Stephen Budiansky

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Author: Stephen Budiansky
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-01-24
ISBN: 0670018406
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Viking Adult

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Book Review: The Pain Of Reconstruction
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a most interesting book about the period of reconstruction. The carpetbaggers did not make this process any easier for our Nation that had been torn apart. Race was a problem before the war, during the war, during reconstruction, and it is today. The war was over but the hate was still there. There were four years of the bloodiest war we have ever experienced. Families had been split apart, neighbors, states, and a nation. The Mason and Dixon line was still drawn. With reconstruction came the terror that resulted in hangings and political turmoil. Lincoln's untimely death was part of the terrorism that flooded the South. By Ruth Thompson author of "Natchez Above The River" and " The Bluegrass Dream"

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An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era

Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. That violence was spread by roving vigilantes connected only by ideology, and by the hateful invective printed in widely read newspapers and pamphlets. Amid all the chaos, however, some men and women struggled to establish a ?New South? in which former slaves would have new rights and a new prosperity would be shared by all. In his vivid, fast-paced narrative of the era now known as Reconstruction, Stephen Budiansky illuminates the lives of five remarkable men?two Union officers, a Confederate general, a Northern entrepreneur, and a former slave?whose idealism in the face of overwhelming hatred would not be matched for nearly a century. The Bloody Shirt is a story of violence, racism, division, and heroism that sheds new light on a crucial time in America?s history.

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