The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary terror groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Re
Red Shirts at a polling place in Old Hundred, North Carolina, on Election Day, November 8, 1898
"Red Shirt" uniform displayed, at the North Carolina Museum of History, circa 1898–1900
Red Shirts in Laurinburg on election day, 1898
The Reconstruction era, often simply called Reconstruction, was a period in United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges
Red Shirts (United States)
…States were white supremacist paramilitary terror groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi in 1875, when anti-Reconstruction private terror units adopted red shirts to make themselves more visible…
The distribution of wealth per capita in 1872, illustrating the disparity between North and South in that period
The Southern economy had been ruined by the war. Charleston, South Carolina: Broad Street, 1865
A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled "The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union". The caption reads (Johnson): "Take it quietly Uncle Abe and I will draw it closer than ever." (Lincoln): "A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended."
Monument in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic, organized after the war