The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)

Journal of Southern History | May 1, 2004| | Copyright

The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James Alex Baggett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 323. $55.00, ISBN 0-8071-2798-1.)

Scalawags--"white southerners ... who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the Republican Party"--play a central role in the story of restoring the Union after 1865 (p. 2). The traditional interpretation portrays them as scoundrels who betrayed their section and race, whereas more recent revisionist and post-revisionist views tend to place them in a more favorable light. ...

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