02129cam a2200361 i 4500 1075471294 TxAuBib 20240123120000.0 240109s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u oc2024002009 9780062950642 HRD 30.00 0062950649 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Cwiklik, Robert, author. Sheridan's secret mission [BOOK] : how the South won the war after the Civil War / Robert Cwiklik. First edition. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index. "In late 1874, nearly ten years after the Civil War, former slaves, or freedmen, found themselves under siege in the South by violent paramilitary groups like the White League, intent on erasing their newly won voting rights and other postwar gains and consigning them to a condition little better than slavery. President Ulysses S. Grant, vowing to enforce, “with rigor,” laws protecting the rights of former slaves, asked General Philip H. Sheridan to visit New Orleans and other Southern trouble spots to investigate the freedmen’s plight, all while pretending to be on vacation. Sheridan’s Secret Mission recounts the feisty Union war hero’s Southern sojourn amid tragic episodes of racial terror that ultimately fueled the overthrow of Reconstruction-era protections for black rights.". 20240123. Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888. White League (La.) United States Army. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877.) Generals United States. Race relations Southern States History. Undercover operations. African Americans Southern States History.