The Scalawags. Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
USA: Wollaston Press, 2005. 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.This is the first Southwide study of the scalawags, its scope and astounding.....