Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H.
Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. New
England native, Union soldier, Freedmen's Bureau agent, and
Louisiana planter, Twitchell became the radical political boss of
Red River Parish in the 1870s. He forged an economic alliance with
entrepreneurial Jewish merchants and rose to power during the first
upswing of the southern economy after the war. The Panic of 1873,
however, undermined his regime and virtually overnight the New
Englander quickly went from financial benefactor to scapegoat for
northwest Louisiana's failed dreams of prosperity. His
life-and-death struggle with the notorious White League has more
gut-wrenching suspense than most novels. The first full-length
study of Twitchell, Edge of the Sword is edifying, entertaining,
and cutting-edge scholarship.
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