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Author Cwiklik, Robert, author.

Title Sheridan's secret mission : how the South won the war after the Civil War / Robert Cwiklik.

Edition First Edition
Publication Info. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3092653~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction-NEW  973.8 CWI    DUE 06-06-24
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Description viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Recounts the late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White league intent on erasing their postwar gains.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.
Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.
Generals -- United States.
White League (La.)
Race relations -- Southern States -- History.
Undercover operations.
United States. Army.
African Americans -- Southern States -- History.
ISBN 9780062950642 hc.
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