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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"federal troops"”.
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Use of Federal Troops in Civil Disturbances 1892-1968
… Comitatus Act in 1878, which forbade the use of federal troops as routine civil law enforcers. The incidents range from the Coeur 'd'Alene Idaho incident to the race riots of 1968 and many are well known to anyone familiar with American history. The major concern of the study was the examination …
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The Break-up of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army, 1865
… many Texas communities until the arrival of Federal troops in late June.
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Confederate Lynchburg, 1861-1865
… 1865, when Mayor Branch surrendered the city to Federal troops.
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The Role of Violence in Hunt County, Texas, during Reconstruction
… avoided the experience of invasion by Northern troops during the Civil War, the people living in the interior of the state of Texas accepted Confederate defeat at first. However, with the instituting of Northern efforts at Reconstruction, such as the installation of Republican interim government …
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Mosby's Rangers: the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.
… tendered by the partisan chief and his command. Federal troops characterized the partisans as "guerrillas'' and "bushwhackers." Mosoy did not disdain the term "guerrilla,” although he defended the ambush tactic. The Partisan Ranger Law authorized plunder as the spoils of war. The battalion had no …
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Patrick County, Virginia and the Civil War, 1860-1880
… In fact, no battles occurred in the county and Federal troops only invaded the county once in four years. Nevertheless, the Civil War came home to Patrick in a variety of ways: men were killed, livestock and crops impressed, and farms destroyed. With its prosperity of the 1850's disrupted by the …
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
… soldiers’ idealized view of human bondage. Federal armies wrecked havoc on masters’ farms and plantations, seized hundreds of thousands of slaves, and eventually armed African Americans. Rebel troops were not blind to the war’s negative effects on the peculiar institution. They noted black …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… could claim sovereignty, so the Cherokee Nation, federal government, and state of Georgia each sought to impose its own laws over the territory. Instead of a peaceful settlement, Georgia’s leaders had to regulate the social landscape of the borderlands, or impose social control through violence. A …