Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Wow the 19th century was weirder and wilder then one could possibly imagine From 1848 revolutions to US Reconstruction!!!!! """ Carl Schurz captured the venom that suffused American social relations in the conquered South in an incident that took place in a Savannah hotel. Schurz was a German émigré and refugee from the failed European revolutions of 1848. He had settled in Missouri and become a general in the Union army. He knew what it meant to lose a revolution, and he knew that defeat did not necessarily change minds. He was in 1865 a Radical, sent to the South by the president to report on conditions there.
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