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75. Paul Andrew Hutton, Phil Sheridan and His Army (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 24–25; Roy Morris, Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan (New York: Crown, 1992), 291; Joseph G. Dawson, “General Phil Sheridan and Military Reconstruction in Louisiana,” Civil War History 24 (January 1978): 133–51; Grant to John Pope, June 28, 1867, in Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 17:204.

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81. James Alex Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), 14–41.

82. Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008), 6; Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865–1881 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1977), 128–30; Eric Foner, “Introduction,” in Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), xiii–xxxi; Billy W. Libby, “Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi Takes His Seat, January–February 1870,” Journal of Mississippi History 37 (November 1975): 381–94.

83. Benjamin Ginsberg, Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag During Radical Reconstruction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 108; John S. Reynolds, Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865–1877 (Columbia, SC: State Co., 1905), 258; James Shepherd Pike, The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government (New York: D. Appleton, 1874), 197, 199–200; “A Romance of Rascality,” New York Times (December 26, 1878).

84. F. B. Simkins and R. H. Woody, South Carolina During Reconstruction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932), 137–38, 148, 155, 175; Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869–1879 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984), 33–34, 81; James S. Allen, Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy (New York: International Publishers, 1937), 140–44.

85. Ottis Clark Skipper, “J. D. B. DeBow, the Man,” Journal of Southern History 10 (November 1944): 420–21; “Judge James L. Orr,” in U. R. Brooks, South Carolina Bench and Bar (Columbia, SC: State Co., 1908), 1:186; Piston, Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant, 106, 106, 109, 123.

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87. Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 50–51; Current, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, 368–75.

88. Richardson, Westward from Appomattox, 150–53.

89. Andrew L. Slap, The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), 199; Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox (New York: Viking, 2008), 205, 221–40; “To Daniel H. Chamberlain,” July 26, 1876, in Papers of Ulysses Simpson Grant, 27:199; McFeely, Grant, 419–25.

90. Trefousse, The Radical Republicans, 373.

91. William Cohen, “Black Immobility and Free Labor: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Relocation of Black Labor, 1865–1868,” Civil War History 30 (September 1984): 221–34.

92. “Slaughter-House Cases,” in Christian Samito, ed., Changes in Law and Society During the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), 261–72; Michael A. Ross, Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), 200.

93. Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865–1901 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), 150; “United States v. Cruikshank,” in Samito, ed., Changes in Law and Society During the Civil War and Reconstruction, 284.

94. “An Act to Protect All Citizens in the Civil and Legal Rights,” March 3, 1875, in Statutes at Large, 43rd Congress, 2nd session (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1875), 18 (III):335–37.

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96. Paul A. Cimbala, Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 209–16; John A. Carpenter, Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard (1964; New York: Fordham University Press, 1999), 136–56; James T. King, War Eagle: A Life of General Eugene A. Carr (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964), 293; Bensel, Yankee Leviathan, 380.

97. Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein and Richard Zuczek,