just said the same thing and saw your post LOL
It sums up the view from back then.
Over 800,000 acres were taken after the war by the feds but have you noticed how reconstruction is hardly ever mentioned?
Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers— all terms no longer taught even in the South.
Or that the original klan was disbanded in 1877, as a result of the Force Acts (and some would say the success of the organization in re: Rutherford B. Hayes compromise on electors and his removal of Federal troops from the South— it happened— along with a Democratic House in the 45th Congress). Thus began the Solid South.