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All these elected Republicans still covering for Trump and white supremacist insurrection IS EXACTLY white southern ex-confederates trying to infiltrate congress after the Civil War. EXACTLY.
The Battle of Liberty Place - In 1874 a major election battle broke out between about 10,000 white supremacists and former Confederate soldiers. “The Battle of Liberty Place” and was called resounding “Confederate” victory. Federal troops had to be sent in to restore order.
The 1874 insurrection and coup d'etat by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government in New Orleans, the capital of Louisiana at the time.
5000 members of the White League, a paramilitary terrorist organization made up largely of Confederate veterans, fought against the outnumbered New Orleans Metropolitan Police and state militia. The insurgents held the statehouse, armory, and downtown for 3 days
Congress passed and signed by President Ulysses Grant on May 22, 1872, the Amnesty Act of 1872 ended office-holding disqualifications against most of the Confederate leaders and other former civil and military officials who had rebelled against the Union in the Civil War.
1865, President Andrew Johnson gave amnesty and the return of property to those who would take an oath of allegiance. Former high-ranking Confederate government and military officials, and people owning more than $20,000 worth of property, could apply for individual pardons.