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  1. Typical Reconstruction by entitled Yankees

    1. Amen, brother!

  2. A long read, interesting and informative of the times of the 1860s. Of interest also is the style of prose in the report which was published in 1908.

  3. I urge all supporters of historical monuments in Alabama to contact the Governor and other politicians to pass a stronger bill that increases fines and penalties for destruction or removal of all monuments 40 years or older. http://216.226.177.218/forms/contact.aspx

  4. Episodes like this perpetrated by low-life union soldiers during Reconstruction, is the reason the strong dislike felt toward today’s yankee carpetbaggers. I wish they’d stay up north where they belong.

  5. My wife’s father was from Alabama. She still has family there. We had bought the Alabama Footprints series.

  6. Why was Tood sitting in Jeffries’ lap?

    1. I’m wondering about that as well.

    2. I did too when I transcribed it so I double-checked the wording. I believe that may be a way they phrased sitting nearby in 1908 but I’m not sure. It could be a typo in the book, but I honestly don’t know the answer.

  7. For all intents and purposes, the “Reconstruction Era” ended after the political Compromise of 1877. There is no justification given for calling this a “Reconstruction days” incident. How is that characterization justified?

    1. Read intently, the incident happen in the mornining of August 31, 1865. The despicable Yankee Reconstruction was in full swing. Technically it still exsist today. Read the book “Punished In Poverty” by the Kennedy Twins as proof.
      Believe me, it will open your eyes as to what “Our Glorious Federal Government has done to the Southern People” and it was intentional.

  8. Odette Yeager, this is a great story about Greensboro!

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