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Tag Archives: William Pitt Kellogg
banditti busters?
Louisiana’s political affairs were still unsettled in the aftermath of the September 1874 Battle of Liberty Place, in which the white supremacist White League began an insurrection to take control of the state government. At that time federal troops put … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, Postbellum Politics, Reconstruction, The Grant Administration
Tagged Grant Administration, Louis Alfred Wiltz, Philip Sheridan, Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Ulysses S. Grant, Wendell Phillips, William Almon Wheeler, William Pitt Kellogg, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Worth Belknap
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Battle in New Orleans
According to Eric Foner in Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, every election in Louisiana “between 1868 and 1876 was marked by rampant violence and pervasive fraud.” The results of the 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election were highly disputed. Both carpetbagger Republican … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The Grant Administration
Tagged Algernon Sidney Badger, Battle of Liberty Place (Battle of Canal Street), Davidson Bradfute Penn, James Longstreet, John McEnery, Louisiana, New Orleans, Ulysses S. Grant, White League, William Hemsley Emory, William Pitt Kellogg
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