| Contents |
Prologue: The best, the bravest, and the purest -- There is love enough -- "The swing of old soldiers" -- Yankee panky -- Sympathy for the junta -- Invaders -- Fear of a black state -- "A trip south might be agreeable" -- A local club -- Kangaroo quorum -- "The genius of smallness" -- War in peacetime -- Making martyrs -- "A reproach upon the state and country" -- "Peaceably if possible, forcibly if necessary" -- "Occasionally there were a few necks broken" -- Epilogue: "The whole power of government". |
| Abstract |
An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 9780062950642 |
| ISBN | 0062950649 (hardcover) |
| Stock number | Harpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132 SAN 200-2086 |
