South Carolina was also the only Confederate state not to harbor pockets of anti-secessionist that was strong enough to send large amounts of white men to fight for the Union, as every other state in the Confederacy did. Despite South Carolina’s important role in the start of the war, ...
which lasted until approximately 1876 when Democrats and former Confederates committed voter fraud to regain power. On October 19, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended habeas corpus in nine South Carolina counties under the authority of the Ku Klux Klan Act. Led by Grant's Attorney General...
Tennessee, and South Carolina, the latter in areas under Union control, of course. In May 1863, the Corps d’ Afrique was formed in Louisiana by Union major general Nathanial Banks. He planned for it to consist of 18 regiments, infantry, artillery and cavalry, with engineers ...
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However, Lee had proven that the Confederates had a first class army capable of taking on the army of the North. Even with holes in their shoes and rags for clothes, the Southern army held a strong determination to win or die for their cause, and this feeling also prevailed in Richmond...
27). Louisa Adam from North Carolina recalled performing this service herself, a memory that must have stuck in the mind of the child she was at the time. “I have greased my daddy’s back after he had been whupped until his back was cut to pieces,” she reported. “He had to work...