President Harrison ordered soldiers to South Dakota in the midst of a midterm election campaign that looked bad for his Republican party.
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Anthony Burns and the Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act
“We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
South Carolina’s Remarkable Democratic Experiment of 1868
The making of South Carolina’s first constitution in the post-Civil War South