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Edge of the Sword: the Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)-

Publication: Civil War History
Publication Date: 01-MAR-03 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Edge of the Sword: the Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)-(book review)

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By Ted Tunnell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. 326. $34.95.)

"Marshall Twitchell was no saint," Ted Tunnell confesses near the end of his biography of the Vermont carpetbagger who earned his fame in Reconstruction Louisiana politics (257). Neither did Twitchell fit the carpetbagger mold, cast by historian William Dunning and his followers nearly a century ago, which held that these men were "archetypical villains, lowbred northern adventurers who descended like vultures on the conquered South" (1-2). Although modern scholarship has long since rejected the "hoary stereotype" of the venal carpetbagger, most Americans have "managed to overlook the revisionist historiographical watershed of the 1960s" (2). Thus Tunnell offers this biography,...

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