Confederate sympathizers assassinated Lincoln days after Appomattox.
And were ready to kill SoS Seward and VP Johnson. Knights of the White Camelia organized in 1867. KKK. Red Shirts. So-called "Rifle Clubs."
“The freedmen here have been kept in perfect terror of their lives by the desperate men of the County who are hostile and active in abusive assailing and murdering this inoffensive people all over the County for any and every pretext that human ingenuity can devise and often without any plea whatever.” Freedmen’s Bureau official in Sherman, Texas, October 1866
This was a counterinsurgency.
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Posted: 12/13/2023 at 10:54AM