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Carpetbaggers, cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: exposing the invisible empire ... By James Michael Martinez

http://books.google.com/books?id=aLXSgDimlD0C&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=whitecaps+during+reconstruction&source=bl&ots=lstOYDoU34&sig=insMBPG2seiAIhBPfcAceHEXFZc&hl=en&ei=CZDVS5P2IZKY8AT5mPSyDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=whitecaps%20during%20reconstruction&f=false

page 213-- Began in Ind. as cump pointed out.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=4NQEpPIc37EC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=whitecaps+during+reconstruction&source=bl&ots=rs0nmYA-Y9&sig=HeQ0iAQ7oDDwTTPgW_C8atkE5so&hl=en&ei=bZHVS7fEJYve9ATvjMnsCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBIQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=whitecaps%20during%20reconstruction&f=false

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Very Interesting. If this is where you want to take the discssion

Strain of violence: historical studies of American violence and vigilantism By Richard Maxwell

http://books.google.com/books?id=vW79dBtockMC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=whitecaps+during+reconstruction&source=bl&ots=VtWeTc9QPB&sig=fSnKA_o990VGQ-0dW4rPT2VEYJk&hl=en&ei=V5TVS-_AL4TK9gSv4vzADw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CBkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Union League??? new one for me.

http://www.scv-thirdfloridawildcats.com/Union_League_terrorism.html

http://www.southernmessenger.org/reconstruction.htm

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Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama By Walter Lynwood Fleming
http://books.google.com/books?id=k59scrAh_LQC&pg=PA553&lpg=PA553&dq=union+league+reconstruction&source=bl&ots=G65kwLt3w5&sig=m8zNg-MF1_XLFkjkVJe6DYHmFjk&hl=en&ei=65XVS4XBKIO89QS_94GnDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=union%20league%20reconstruction&f=false

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Hope these help yopu . Lwearned quite a bit in just this brief research for you. Gives a whole new look to the KKK and why it was formed etc.

Sure hope this helps in your posting.

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I know this isn't sourced enough to be used, but if you recall the post about my uncles, well this soert of verifys the explanation I got from other family members. At this time I just think of it as a legend.

White Caps were vigilante organizations arising in Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. Using the night-riding, terrorist tactics of the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction era, white farmers in southwestern Mississippi and the Florida parishes of Louisiana tried to drive black tenant farmers and lumber mill laborers from the area. Intervention from Governor Stone and some lengthy prison sentences crushed the movement in Mississippi in the mid-1890s, but Louisiana whitecapping turned into a feud that lasted well into the twentieth century. In New Mexico, Mexican American ranchers organized themselves as Las Gorras Blancas in 1888 to intimidate Anglo ranchers and business owners who fenced in what had been common grazing land.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=vW79dBtockMC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=whitecaps+during+reconstruction&source=bl&ots=VtWeTc9QPB&sig=fSnKA_o990VGQ-0dW4rPT2VEYJk&hl=en&ei=bZHVS7fEJYve9ATvjMnsCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CBkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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