Red Shirts Remembered by William Arthur Sheppard

An excellent, vintage, hardcover copy of the book, "Red Shirts Remembered" by William Arthur Sheppard.  An very well documented look at the post- US Civil War South and the reconstruction of the Southern States with a focus on the Southern Brigadiers of the Reconstruction Period, "The Red Shirts".   The Red Shirts were simply a more organized version of the “rifle clubs” or “sabre clubs” that had proliferated in South Carolina after the breakup of the Ku Klux Klan by federal forces in 1871.  These clubs, ostensibly social in nature, were in fact local paramilitary forces loyal to the Democratic Party mainly in the State of South Carolina.  339 pages with Expedited Shipping!

Condition Notes: gift note on flyleaf, but a very nice copy with slight foxing on page ends, strong binding and clean pages. No dust jacket.