Edge of the Sword : The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction
by
Ted Tunnell
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0807130230
ISBN-13
9780807130230
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2004
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
567 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 14.90 x 2.70 cms
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Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. This first full-length study of Twitchell is edifying, entertaining, and cutting-edge scholarship.
Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. New England native, Union soldier, Freedmen's Bureau agent, and Louisiana planter, Twitchell became the radical political boss of Red River Parish in the 1870s. He forged an economic alliance with entrepreneurial Jewish merchants and rose to power during the first upswing of the southern economy after the war. The Panic of 1873, however, undermined his regime and virtually overnight the New Englander quickly went from financial benefactor to scapegoat for northwest Louisiana's failed dreams of prosperity. His life-and-death struggle with the notorious White League has more gut-wrenching suspense than most novels. The first full-length study of Twitchell, Edge of the Sword is edifying, entertaining, and cutting-edge scholarship.
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