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Edward Ball’s great-great-grandfather, Polycarp Constant Lecorgne, was a racist who sought to restore white dominance in Louisiana during and after Reconstruction in the wake of the US Civil War. A Creole from New Orleans whose ancestors hailed from Brittany in western France, Lecorgne was a “hero” of his times because he fought for “whiteness” in the service of the white supremacist cause.
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BRATTLEBORO â In March of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes became the president of the United States. According to the Vermont Phoenix, in his inauguration speech Hayes said the Southern question was foremost on his mind. After a decade of controversy, how should the federal government support the reestablishment of the Southern states within the United States of America?
The Civil War had ended almost 12 years earlier, but violent conflicts in the former Confederate states had not ended. In May 1876 a local Civil War hero, Marshall Twitchell, was gunned down in Louisiana by a would-be assassin and left for dead.
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BRATTLEBORO â In March of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes became the president of the United States. According to the Vermont Phoenix, in his inauguration speech Hayes said the Southern question was foremost on his mind. After a decade of controversy, how should the federal government support the reestablishment of the Southern states within the United States of America?
The Civil War had ended almost 12 years earlier, but violent conflicts in the former Confederate states had not ended. In May 1876 a local Civil War hero, Marshall Twitchell, was gunned down in Louisiana by a would-be assassin and left for dead.