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Toward the end of his life General Grant came to the excellent conclusion that the former Confederate states would have benefitted from twenty years of military rule. Would have avoided the twin evils of carpetbagger/scalawag dominated regimes and the white supremacist regimes that replaced them.



A dozen years of military rule is what created those things in the first place. Funny, though: For a minute there, you sounded like Paul Bremmer.