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Title	:	The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
Author	:	Stephen Budiansky
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	January 24th 2008 by Viking Adult
Categories	:	History. Military History. Civil War. North American Hi.... American History. Nonfiction. Politics

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

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An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era

Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. That violence was spread by roving vigilantes connected only by ideology, and by the hateful invective printed in widely read newspapers and pamphlets. Amid all the chaos, however, some men and women struggled to establish a “New South” in which former slaves would have new rights and a new prosperity would be shared by all. In his vivid, fast-paced narrative of the era now known as Reconstruction, Stephen Budiansky illuminates the lives of five remarkable men—two Union officers, a Confederate general, a Northern entrepreneur, and a former slave—whose idealism in the face of overwhelming hatred would not be matched for nearly a century. The Bloody Shirt is a story of violence, racism, division, and heroism that sheds new light on a crucial time in America’s history.

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Original Title:	The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
ISBN:	0670018406 (ISBN13: 9780670018406)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.84 From 293 Users | 58 Reviews

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This book was good, but good for what it was, not what could've and probably should've been. It begins with a concise, if somewhat foreboding, synopsis of the causes, effects, and outright horror of the post-Civil War reconstruction period in the southern states. It then begins a litany of those horrors visited upon ex-slaves, "carpet baggers", and Republican radicals wheresoever they might be hunted down. These terrifying events are related in scrupulously researched, stomach turning detail --

Just incredibly well-written and devastating to read. The perfect introduction to just how brutal and nakedly treasonous Reconstruction was, should be required school reading.

It pains me not to finish a book by Stephen Budiansky, but I just couldn't. Not because it is bad. It's just a very difficult read, theme and style. Most of the evidence for what happened after the American Civil Wars comes from stories, mostly by less educated people. Reading one badly spelled letter after another, one sad tale after another is simply soul-eroding. Exhausting. There's a lot of emotion in the book, maybe even too much. Unlike most other topics, this one is still very much

Another piece of essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we managed to "win" the Civil War and lose both the peace and racial equality for black people. This is the Reconstruction they didn't teach us in history class, because the (still, when I was growing up)White Supremacist South didn't want us to know. The romantic fantasy of The Lost Cause is thoroughly debunked by the list of atrocities and violations of Freedmen after the war...turns out, even one of my favorite novels

I agonized over how I should rate this book. I was a little disappointed with the way that Budiansky organizes his material. I felt that the book would have been a better account (and a better read) if he hadn't tied so much of his narrative to the handful of historical actors on whom he focuses. That said, this book presents a harrowing account of terrorist attacks by Southern whites on black freedmen and their white allies. Some readers might object to the term "terrorism," but there is no

Just finished this last night - as a kid growing up in Tennessee and Delaware in the 1980's, somehow the reality of Reconstruction never got taught, beyond the carpetbaggers and "40 acres and a mule." This book opened my eyes to what really happened and I am grateful. Budiansky has a gift for clear writing that show the historical figures through their writing and the details of their lives, can't wait to read more by him.

I wonder if your high school history classes were like mine, with Reconstruction given a brief mention after the exhaustion of teaching the Civil War.I came away with sympathy for the South. "Carpetbaggers." "Scalawags." "Northern Occupiers."And my high school was in Pennsylvania, not Mississippi.Last night I finished THE BLOODY SHIRT, about the ten years in the South after the end of the Civil War. It's not an exhaustive, academic history of that period. Instead, the author relates the stories