The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War

Description

A gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. Drawing on original letters and diaries as well as published racist diatribes of the time, acclaimed historian Stephen Budiansky concentrates his vivid, fast paced narrative on the efforts of five heroic men?two Union officers, a Confederate general, a Northern entrepreneur, and a former slave?who showed remarkable idealism and courage as they struggled to establish a ?New South? in the face of overwhelming hatred and organized resistance. "The Bloody Shirt" sheds new light on the violence, racism, division, and heroism of Reconstruction, a largely forgotten but epochal chapter in American history. Song-language in pre-literate culture the colloquial stratum in classical Attic prose the language of classical Attic documentary inscriptions "E" in the Chalkis Decree some types of abnormal word order in Attic comedy review of Guiraud's "La Phrase Nominale" review of Bergson's "Zur Stellung des Adjektivs in der alteren Griechischen" review of Thesleff's "Studies in the Styles of Plato" the portrayal of moral evaluation in Greek poetry the poetry of Archilochus review of Lasserre and Bonnard's "Archilochus" review of Tarditi's "Archilochus" and Plato's "Tyrtaeus" Pindar's "Olympian Odes" Pindar's "Isthmian Odes" some neglected aspects of Agamemnon's dilemma the red fabrics in the "Agamemnon" the political aspect of Aeschylus' "Eumenides" translation - the Speakable and the Unspeakable review of Brooks Otis' "Cosmos and Tragedy" Aeschylus Greek comedy Plato Comicus - "Presbeis" and "Hellas" the style of Aristophanes language and character in Aristophanes the skene in Aristophanes portrait-masks in Aristophanes review of Ehrenberg's "The People of Aristophanes" review of Taillardat's "Les Images d' Aristophane" notes on Aristophanes' "Acharnians" Aristophanes' "Knights".