The Scalawags - Baggett, James Alex
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In the Scalawags, James Alex Baggett ambitiously uncovers the genesis of scalawag leaders through-out the former Confederacy. Using a collective biography approach, Baggett profiles 742 white southerners who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the Republican Party. He then compares and contrasts the scalawags with 666 redeemer-Democrats who opposed and eventually replaced them. Baggett follows the life of each scalawag before, during, and after the war, revealing real personalities and not mere statistics. This is the first Southwide study of the scalawags, and its scope and astounding…mehr

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In the Scalawags, James Alex Baggett ambitiously uncovers the genesis of scalawag leaders through-out the former Confederacy. Using a collective biography approach, Baggett profiles 742 white southerners who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the Republican Party. He then compares and contrasts the scalawags with 666 redeemer-Democrats who opposed and eventually replaced them. Baggett follows the life of each scalawag before, during, and after the war, revealing real personalities and not mere statistics. This is the first Southwide study of the scalawags, and its scope and astounding wealth of sources make it the definitive work on the subject.
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James Alex Baggett, retired dean and professor of history of Union University in Tennessee, lives in Atlanta. He is the author of two previous books, A History of Jackson Clinic and So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: Union University, 1823--2000.