Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869
- ISBN-10
- 1572333626
- ISBN-13
- 9781572333628
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 327
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Univ. of Tennessee Press
- Author
- Ben H. Severance
Description
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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