Contextually Speaking: Congress, Federal Power, and the Fort Pillow Massacre
by Susan Eva O’Donovan When Elihu B. Washburne and his delegation set out on their journey to Memphis to inquire into the origins and outcomes of the May 1866 Memphis Massacre, they bore witness to a swiftly changing relationship between individual citizens and their nation. As Eric Foner and other historians have explained, the Civil […]
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