| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James Alex Baggett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xviii, 323 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8071-2798-1.)
A broad study of Southerners who affiliated with the Republican party during the 1860s has been long overdue. So The Scalawags takes a welcome place in the evolving interpretation of this controversial period. James Alex Baggett describes Southern white Republicanism from its nascent state to full flowering during congressional Reconstruction. By surveying Republican politicians and developments in each state, during and after the war, he has provided a needed service.	1
The timeline for the rise or fall of Republicanism differed from state to state. In those areas occupied by Union troops during the war—Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas—secessionists and the Democratic party were challenged first. In the upper South during the war, where Republicanism was stronger, resistance to the Confederate cause was more open than in the Deep South. Much attention is directed to those dissenters opposing secession, the war, or the state governments set up by Andrew Johnson immediately following the conflict. Treatment of Southern Republicans after they came to power in 1868 is not as thorough.	. . .

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