(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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