Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrori

One Texan called them "blue-coated dogs of despotism." They were the federal army, and in Texas after the Civil War they were an army of occupation. Their role

Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced