Tennessee's Radical Army

Tennessee's Radical Army
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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 1572333626
ISBN-13 : 9781572333628
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Book Synopsis Tennessee's Radical Army by : Ben H. Severance

Download or read book Tennessee's Radical Army written by Ben H. Severance and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-Civil War Tennessee, Severance studies the influence of Republican governor William Brownlow's deployment of the partisan Tennessee State Guard, two thousand men of whom five hundred were African-American members. This militia enforced the Reconstruction policies by policing elections, protecting recent freedman, and operating against paramilitary groups like the Ku Klux Klan.


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