| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Ted Tunnell. Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 326. $34.95.

Students of Reconstruction may have encountered Marshall H. Twitchell through his memoir, Carpetbagger from Vermont (1989), but Ted Tunnell's evocative biography succeeds in providing a more complete life of this under-appreciated figure. Twitchell's resumé reveals much about him. He volunteered for a Vermont regiment in the Union Army, serving as a soldier and a sergeant, passed the examination to be an officer in the U.S. Colored Troops and was wounded in action, took the opportunity to become a Freedmen's Bureau agent, and promoted public education in his adopted state of Louisiana, where he also held office as a Republican state senator. In Louisiana, Twitchell exemplified the northerner who invested in risky postwar land and agriculture ventures. Moreover, as a husband, father, and family patriarch he risked his relatives' lives and property by personifying Republican social, political, and economic changes brought on by Reconstruction. Tunnell does a remarkable job of describing and analyzing each aspect of Twitchell's life. He stresses the years 1865 to 1877 in Louisiana, emphasizing that the postwar violence visited upon Twitchell and his family stayed with him for the rest of his life, even after he gained an appointment as U.S. consul at Kingston, Canada, in 1877. . . .

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