The Klan did not simply run roughshod over the countryside in 1868. Army detachments, including black U.S. soldiers, were sent to combat the Klan. One problem they had was common to modern counterinsurgencies: How to tell who is an enemy? This article from the pro-Klan newspaper the Memphis Avalanche is a white supremacist view of black troops engaged in counter-insurgency. (Note: The article uses racist terms.)
Memphis Daily Avalanche
Wednesday, February 26, 1868
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