(USIA) CHAPTER
6: RECONSTRUCTION
With Malice Toward None -- Radical Reconstruction --
The End of Reconstruction -- Peace Democrats, Copperheads and Draft Riots
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Judge Albion
Tourgee on the KKK
In a letter to the New York
Tribune in 1870, Judge Albion Tourgee of North Carolina, a carpetbagger,
describes the outrages of the Ku Klux Klan to an acquaintance in the U.S.
Senate.
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