During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term scalawag referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset of the federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, scal
Profiles more than seven hundred dissenters in the Confederacy who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, detailing their lives and political activities before, during, and after the Civil
After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former sl
