By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew federal soldiers from Louisiana—the last federally occupied former Confederate state—on April 24, 1877. This was barely 12 years after the Civil War ended - as part of a political deal that permitted his victory. The departure signaled the end of Reconstruction […]
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