Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction / Edition 1

Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction / Edition 1

by J. Michael Martinez
ISBN-10:
0742550788
ISBN-13:
9780742550780
Pub. Date:
03/01/2007
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0742550788
ISBN-13:
9780742550780
Pub. Date:
03/01/2007
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction / Edition 1

Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction / Edition 1

by J. Michael Martinez

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Overview

This is the story of the rise and fall of the Reconstruction-era Klan, focusing especially on Major Merrill and the Seventh Cavalry's efforts to expose the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan to the light of day.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742550780
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 03/01/2007
Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 286
Product dimensions: 6.09(w) x 9.14(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

J. Michael Martinez works as a corporate attorney and teaches political science as a part-time faculty member at Kennesaw State University. His most recent book, Life and Death in Civil War Prisons, traces the parallel lives of two Civil War prisoners. Martinez lives in Monroe, Georgia, with his wife and family.

Table of Contents

Prologue: "Jim Williams on His Big Muster"
Chapter 1: "A Brotherhood of Property-Holders, the Peaceable, Law-Abiding Citizens of the State"
Chapter 2: "The Foundations Must Be Broken Up and Relaid, or All Our Blood and Treasure Have Been Spent in Vain"
Chapter 3: "The Whole Fabric of Reconstruction. .. Will Topple and Fall"
Chapter 4: "It Was to Be His Life-long Complaint That His Services Were Never Properly Recognized or Rewarded"
Chapter 5: "The Dagger That Was Made Illustrious in the Hands of Brutus"
Chapter 6: "A Perversion of Moral Sentiment Among the Southern Whites"
Chapter 7: "As Far as I Can Learn, the Prosecuting Lawyers Have Managed the Business Ably"
Chapter 8: "The Causes from Which Ku Kluxism Sprung Are Still Potent for Evil"
Chapter 9: "He Became So Offensive a Partisan That the Papers of That Section Applied to Him the Most Opprobrious Epithets"
Epilogue: "It Is Like Writing History with Lightning"
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