"The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox". By Stephen Budiansky. It's about how the United States "lost the peace" after the Civil War by failing to stop violence against the freed slaves. It also describes how Southerners have distorted the truth up to the present day, justifying white supremacy and blaming the blacks for Reconstruction's failure. Required reading IMO for anyone who still insists all that Southerners wanted was to protect "State's Rights".
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