Reconstruction

[jessup66]

It would have been handled much better that it was. I still dont beleive that if lincoln was still alive he could have stopped the kkk or black codes. Thats just what I think though.

[samgrant]

Originally Posted by jessup66

It would have been handled much better that it was. I still dont beleive that if lincoln was still alive he could have stopped the kkk or black codes. Thats just what I think though.

Maybe so jess, If that bullet hadn't killed Lincoln, I believe the Reconstruction would have.

sam

[ole]

I'd be hard put to come up with any time in recorded history when things were handled in accordance with the way we can see how each ought to have been handled. If "ifs and buts were candy and nuts...."

ole

[larry_cockerham]

I just read a reference (on another venue) from writing by Mr. Stanley Horne, a well respected, now deceased, Nashville researcher, who was explaining about our Tennessee "governor" banning weapons from Southern veterans immediately after the war. That was a bit contrary to the 'settlements' offered by Grant and Sherman. At the same time his carpetbagger buddies were armed and causing far more trouble than the 'militia' clan. Those memories didn't sit well with Confederate veterans. Progress toward reonciliation was hobbled by both 'sides'. Our continued bickering between regions and philosophies has continued to postpone the end of a long overworn struggle for a perfect nation. Too many humans can spoil anything.

[clara_barton]

Originally Posted by cash

That's a popular and wrong view of Reconstruction. ...
I remember all too well being force-fed this poppycock in the late 1950s at the University of North Carolina by a distinguished old professor who so ardently embraced the anti-Reconstruction argument that he might as well have been waving the bloody shirt, a time-honored phrase employed by political demagogues to accuse their opponents of association with violence.

Regards,
Cash

Cash,

Another one of my cherished "myths" bites the dust. Well, at least it's been worth the work learning the truth; although, those early prejudices linger for a while.

It's a tough job for historians: trying to be as objective as they can. It's a tough job for students, trying to find the best of the group.

BTW, Cash, who is your favorite historian?