I want to welcome everyone back to the Peking Yenos show.

I'm here with George Bagby. How are you doing, George?

I'm doing well. I've been traveling a lot today, and I'm back at home again and ready to talk reconstruction.

Awesome. Awesome. First time on the show, please tell everybody a little bit about yourself. Tell them your story.

Yeah, I call myself George Bagby. I am a content creator. I'm a guest on a lot of other people's shows.

And I've got a YouTube channel on which I've recorded a lot of readings. That's just what I do mostly on my YouTube channel. I have a small press that I've started called Tallman Books. You can get more information about that through my pinned posts on my Twitter handle. My Twitter handle is at Tallman Books. I've republished or initiated the first

publication of six books now with several more in the works. My focus so far has been mostly

on the reconstruction of the southern states after

the civil war. So my first book that I republished was Walter L. Fleming's Civil War and

Reconstruction in Alabama. And I have published a number of other books on the subject.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Well, that's what we're here to talk about today.

We're going to talk.

I want you to talk about reconstruction, and we're going to get the history of that,

the background behind it, and we're going to lead up to

the reaction that some men in the South decided to take.

So why don't you tell us a little bit about what the conditions were right after the war ended?

Indeed.

Well, the conditions immediately following the war are extremely uncertain and quite dire in most southern communities. So let me outline to you what it's like. The South has virtually no cities with the exception of New Orleans. New Orleans is

exceptional for so many different reasons. That's a sizable city. But the rest of southerners

live out in rural conditions and are engaged directly in agriculture. That is the vast majority of the southern

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