Why the Solid South?: Or, Reconstruction and Its ResultsR. H. Woodward, 1890 - 452 pages |
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... Arkansas ; ETHELBERT BARKSDALE , Ex - M . C. , Miss .; CHARLES STEWART , M. C. , Texas ; B. J. SAGE , Louisiana . BALTIMORE : R. H. WOODWARD & COMPANY . B A HARVARD COLLEGE FEB 27 1922 LIBRARY Pref . 1890 . WHY THE SOLID SOUTH ? ✓ CHAPTER.
... Arkansas ; ETHELBERT BARKSDALE , Ex - M . C. , Miss .; CHARLES STEWART , M. C. , Texas ; B. J. SAGE , Louisiana . BALTIMORE : R. H. WOODWARD & COMPANY . B A HARVARD COLLEGE FEB 27 1922 LIBRARY Pref . 1890 . WHY THE SOLID SOUTH ? ✓ CHAPTER.
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... TEXAS . Condition at close of War - comparatively prosperous in 1865 , 349 ; Andrew J. Ham- ilton appointed Provisional Governor - New Constitution adopted - Throckmorton elected Governor - his inaugural address , 351-353 ; Slavery ...
... TEXAS . Condition at close of War - comparatively prosperous in 1865 , 349 ; Andrew J. Ham- ilton appointed Provisional Governor - New Constitution adopted - Throckmorton elected Governor - his inaugural address , 351-353 ; Slavery ...
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... Texas vs. White , " an indestructible union composed of indestruc- tible states . Upon this idea of the constitution he based his theory of restoration , -a theory which , at the time of his death , was well known , though it appears to ...
... Texas vs. White , " an indestructible union composed of indestruc- tible states . Upon this idea of the constitution he based his theory of restoration , -a theory which , at the time of his death , was well known , though it appears to ...
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... Texas and Arkansas , " " until loyal and republican state governments can be legally established , " it was enacted that those states should be divided into military districts and placed under military rule . On the 23d , of March ...
... Texas and Arkansas , " " until loyal and republican state governments can be legally established , " it was enacted that those states should be divided into military districts and placed under military rule . On the 23d , of March ...
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... Texas - some in the North and West , and numbers went to Brazil . So general was the disposition to go in this last direction that on the 17th December , 1867 , Mr. Chas . Nathan , of New Orleans , published notice that he had ...
... Texas - some in the North and West , and numbers went to Brazil . So general was the disposition to go in this last direction that on the 17th December , 1867 , Mr. Chas . Nathan , of New Orleans , published notice that he had ...
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