SOURCE / report
The Army and Reconstruction, 1865–1877
About this source
The GovInfo copy of U.S. Army Center of Military History publication CMH Pub 75–18.
CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 11
Where this source is used
Disputed 1876 returns left rival claimants to the South Carolina governorship, and both parties inaugurated their candidates.
- supports · printed pp. 70–71
Grant sent reinforcements to the federal troops already in South Carolina.
- supports · printed pp. 70–71
On 17 October 1876 Grant ordered the rifle clubs to disband within three days.
- supports · printed p. 70
Bradley reports six executions after most of the Hamburg company had surrendered.
- supports · printed p. 70
Bradley's six-execution account conflicts with Stone's report of five prisoners deliberately killed; the exact count and identities require reconciliation rather than an uncontested project total.
- qualifies · printed p. 70
A subsequent investigation produced indictments, but no one stood trial for the Hamburg killings.
- supports · printed p. 70
On 8 July 1876 several hundred Red Shirts confronted a Black militia company in Hamburg and demanded its weapons.
- supports · printed pp. 70–71, paragraph beginning ‘In South Carolina’
The documented killings, intimidation, disputed returns, federal decisions, and office transfer establish a sequence of mechanisms but do not establish each mechanism's relative causal weight.
- qualifies · printed pp. 70–71
Bradley describes the clubs as supporting Wade Hampton's gubernatorial campaign.
- supports · printed p. 70
Bradley describes the clubs as intended to intimidate Black militia.
- supports · printed p. 70
Bradley reports that by October 1876 South Carolina Democrats had organized 13,000 men in sixty-eight rifle clubs.
- supports · printed p. 70