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This is John Batchel.

Here's a piece of a conversation, two-hour conversation, with author Swicklick, his new book Sheridan's

Secret Mission.

This is the story of Ulysses Grant, then president, sending his trusted good friend,

General Phil Sheridan, on a secret mission to Louisiana.

Why?

This is the period after the war that we generally know as

reconstruction. There was violence in all directions directed against the former slaves who were

looking to be educated, citizens with voting rights, male voting rights, and have their own farms make money prosper in the United States.

And the white leagues and the white liners who turned on them, prevented that,

saw this to be a failure to govern properly.

Suddenly there was a Republican Party in the South,

and the former slaves voted for it.

Political power was in the hands of Republicans.

However, there were things that could be done,

and one of them, the author Bob Swicklick, says, tells here the 14th Amendment,

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