Prologue: "Jim Williams on His Big Muster"
Chapter 1: "A Brotherhood of Property-Holders, the Peaceable,
Law-Abiding Citizens of the State"
Chapter 2: "The Foundations Must Be Broken Up and Relaid, or All
Our Blood and Treasure Have Been Spent in Vain"
Chapter 3: "The Whole Fabric of Reconstruction . . . Will Topple
and Fall"
Chapter 4: "It Was to Be His Life-long Complaint That His Services
Were Never Properly Recognized or Rewarded"
Chapter 5: "The Dagger That Was Made Illustrious in the Hands of
Brutus"
Chapter 6: "A Perversion of Moral Sentiment Among the Southern
Whites"
Chapter 7: "As Far as I Can Learn, the Prosecuting Lawyers Have
Managed the Business Ably"
Chapter 8: "The Causes from Which Ku Kluxism Sprung Are Still
Potent for Evil"
Chapter 9: "He Became So Offensive a Partisan That the Papers of
That Section Applied to Him the Most Opprobrious Epithets"
Epilogue: "It Is Like Writing History with Lightning"
Bibliographic Essay
J. Michael Martinez works as a corporate attorney and teaches political science as a part-time faculty member at Kennesaw State University. His most recent book, Life and Death in Civil War Prisons, traces the parallel lives of two Civil War prisoners. Martinez lives in Monroe, Georgia, with his wife and family.
Michael Martinez provides a highly readable account of the
Reconstruction Klan in South Carolina, based on a wide array of
sources. Particularly interesting is his account of Major Lewis
Merrill, who was central to bringing the South Carolina Klan to bay
in 1871.
*Allen W. Trelease, author of White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan
Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction*
Offers an exploratory study into the hidden world of the Klan and
the men who attempted to bring it down. . . . A highly readable
introduction to the making of the Klan. Recommended.
*CHOICE*
Martinez's book is a welcome addition to the growing body of
scholarship that presents the human face of this gallant and
arduous era of experimentation and progress.
*Civil War History*
A well researched account of the attempt to counter the Ku Klux
Klan in post-Civil War South Carolina that provides an object
lesson on the difficulty of an indecisive government in countering
a popularly supported insurgency, and the efforts of a dedicated
U.S. cavalry officer who tried.
*David Chalmers, author of Hooded Americanism: The History of the
Ku Klux Klan*
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