Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...
In 1865 Frank rejoined Quantrill on a quixotic raid into Kentucky -- purportedly in an effort to reach Washington ... the end of the Civil War, but Frank and Jesse James were not among them.