Edge of the sword
Subtitle: the ordeal of carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction
By: Ted Tunnell.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Twitchell, Marshall Harvey.; United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands -- Officials and employees -- Biography.; United States. Army. Vermont Brigade, 1st (1861-1865) -- Biography.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana.; Politicians -- Louisiana -- Biography.; Louisiana -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.; Townshend (Vt.) -- Biography.; Red River Parish (La.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In this biography, Ted Tunnell explores the stranger-than-fiction life of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, one of the best-known carpetbaggers in the post-Civil War South. Native New Englander, Union soldier, Louisiana planter and politician, and later American consul in Canada, Twitchell was a colorful, successful man whose experiences illuminate the tumultuous events of the mid-nineteenth century.

His story demolishes the dated stereotype of carpetbaggers as unprincipled scoundrels and serves as an excellent overview of the Civil War and Reconstruction.".

"In this first full-length study of Twitchell, Tunnell centers his sensational and engaging story in a broad social, cultural, economic, and political context and strikingly bridges the nineteenth century's two climactic events - the Civil War and Reconstruction. His analysis of Twitchell's complex interaction with northwest Louisiana's business elite - especially its pioneering Jewish merchants - is cutting-edge scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-318) and index.