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Article: The savage south: lessons of an American insurgency.(Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War)(Book review)
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- September 1, 2006
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War By Nicholas Lemann Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24.00
Albert T. Morgan was desperate and on the run. A Radical epublican in Reconstruction-era Yazoo City, Miss., he had managed to get elected sheriff in 1873--briefly, and only after great trouble from local whites who for a time refused to vacate the courthouse. Now, on Sept. 1, 1875, Morgan, who was white himself, was under assault from the White Leagues, armed groups dedicated to overturning the Southern military defeat in the Civil War by campaigns of violence and intimidation. At a public meeting in Yazoo, a town at the edge of the Mississippi Delta, a defiant white ...