Historical Letter: A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with "Statements" of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia, and an Account of my Expulsion from Andersonville, Ga., by the Ku-Klux Klan.

Freedmen's Bureau Act & The Freedmen's Bureau

Historical Letter: A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with "Statements" of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia, and an Account of my Expulsion from Andersonville, Ga., by the Ku-Klux Klan.

1870

Historical Letter

The Library of Congress features an 1870 historical letter, written by Hamilton Wilcox Pierson, a member of the Ku-Klux Klan, to Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA). The letter claims that violence towards African Americans in Georgia had been overly exaggerated in Congress. Themes include: various accounts taken from individuals in Georgia, a testimony as to why this individual was "ku-kluxed," and an account of "emancipation day" in Andersonville, Georgia.


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