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...detailed account of what happened in defeated Louisiana-where Federal troops (and bullet-headed General Phil Sheridan) remained in occupation until 1877-is invaluable. To plain readers it is a collection of facts which their histories have neglected to give them-including a brilliant sketch of the Negro Governor Warmoth, who was only 26 when he took office. Like Dr. Lonn's next painful subject-Desertion During the Civil War-the book is gall & wormwood to romanticists of the Old South...
Looking at Huey Long, old Louisiana aristocrats used to shake their heads. "Many of our Governors have been scoundrels," they said, "but up to now they have always been gentlemen." Right they were: from the reign of Carpetbagger Henry Clay Warmoth (1868-72) to the reign of Huey Long, too many amiable scoundrels and gentlemen figure-headed Louisiana life. And they left so much essential work undone that when Huey Long came bellowing and blasting his way to power in 1928 it was less like an election than like Louisiana's first payment of a longaccumulated fine for gross...
...distinction of being the son of the only Negro who ever acted as Governor of Louisiana. His father, Pinckney Benton Stewart, as President of the State Senate and Lieutenant Governor, ruled Louisiana for two months (December 1872 through January 1873) during the impeachment trial of Governor Henry Clay Warmoth. It was at the time of the carpet-bagger-scalawag régime, when President Grant was maintaining a Republican state government in power by force of arms. Histories call Pinchback a good man or a scoundrel, depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line they were written. Two years...
...following men of the Yale University crew squad will go to New London this afternoon: Blagden, Cameron, Kunzig, Rumsey, Bogue, Johnson, Ackley, Waterman, Mitchell, Warmoth, Sargent, Hooker, Thomas and Strong. The two coxswains will be Chittenden and Armstrong. The men will be accompanied by Coach Allen. Eleven men on the freshman crew squad will also be taken...
...three eights just selected are made up as follows: First, stroke, Cameron; 7, Blagden; 6, Kunzig; 5, Mitchell; 4, Rumsey; 3, Laws; 2, Bogue; bow, Hewitt. Second, stroke, Hooker; 7, Auchinloss; 6, Warmoth; 5, Sherman; 4, Holt; 3, Schley; 2, Sargent; bow, McClintock. Third, stroke, Verrill; 7, Lincoln; 6, Scott; 5, Johnson; 4, Goodwin; 3, Waterman; 2, Ackley; bow, Atkinson...