The Kirk–Holden war was a police operation taken against the white supremacist organization Ku Klux Klan by the government in the state of North Carolina...
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impeached Holden on eight fabricated charges relating to the Kirk–Holden war. He is the only North Carolina governor to have been impeached. In 2011, Holden was...
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Counties, under the command of Union veteran George W. Kirk, beginning the so-called Kirk–Holden war. Kirk's troops ultimately arrested 82 men. The Grand Jury...
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the regiment became known as Kirk's Raiders. In 1870, Kirk was tasked by North Carolina Governor William Woods Holden to raise and lead a militia into...
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1867. Holden was appointed provisional governor by the Union occupation. Holden was impeached over crimes committed during the Kirk–Holden war against...
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John W. Stephens (category People of North Carolina in the American Civil War)
garroted by the Ku Klux Klan on May 21, 1870. This killing began the Kirk–Holden war. Born John Walter Stephens near Bruce's Crossroads (now Summerfield)...
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The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of...
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City Orange riot, Irish Catholics versus Irish Protestants 1870 – Kirk-Holden war, July–November, Caswell and Alamance counties North Carolina 1870 –...
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documents, 1865–1870, complete text online.[The copyright has expired.] Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. National party platforms, 1840–1964 (1965)...
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Ulysses S. Grant (category United States Army personnel of the Mexican–American War)
the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war. An effective civil rights executive, Grant signed...
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edition Chester, Edward W A guide to political platforms (1977) online Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. National party platforms, 1840-1964 (1965)...
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Chester, Edward W A guide to political platforms (1977) online Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. National party platforms, 1840–1964 (1965)...
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Path from Civil War to Stabilization (2012), emphasizes the broad opposition to instability and political violence in the post-Civil War United States in...
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Wyatt Outlaw (category African Americans in the American Civil War)
provoked Governor William Woods Holden to declare martial law in Alamance and Caswell Counties, resulting in the Kirk-Holden War of 1870. Outlaw was apparently...
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provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America...
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American Civil War reenactment is an effort to recreate the appearance of a particular battle or other event associated with the American Civil War by hobbyists...
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provoked Governor William Woods Holden to declare martial law in Alamance and Caswell Counties, resulting in the Kirk-Holden War of 1870. Alamance County Courthouse...
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The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to displace the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes...
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Mass racial violence in the United States (section World wars, interwar period, and post war period (1914–1954))
1870: Kirk-Holden war: (Alamance County, North Carolina), July - November, Federal troops, led by Col. Kirk and requested by NC governor Holden, were...
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Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...
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production in iron and steel alone dropped as much as 45%.: 167 When the Civil War ended, a boom in railroad construction ensued, with roughly 35,000 miles...
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (category Politics of the American Civil War)
extended period of national mourning. Near the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger political conspiracy intended...
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The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox...
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"Reconstruction, by Allen W. Trelease, 2006". Retrieved July 7, 2022. "The Kirk-Holden War of 1870 and the Failure of Reconstruction in North Carolina" (PDF)...
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Abramson, the widespread availability of pornography during the American Civil War (1861–1865) gave rise to an anti-pornography movement, culminating in the...
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to the state senate. (Stephens' assassination in 1870 provoked the Kirk–Holden War). Webster served six terms as a state senator until he narrowly lost...
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Rutherford B. Hayes (category People of Ohio in the American Civil War)
refugee slaves in court proceedings. At the start of the American Civil War, he left a fledgling political career to join the Union Army as an officer...
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to restore order; the acts of Colonel Kirk's troops to end Klan terrorism came to be known as the Kirk-Holden War. Senator Shoffner was burned in effigy...
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1864 United States presidential election (category Politics of the American Civil War)
Edward W. A guide to political platforms (1977) pp. 80–85 online Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. National party platforms, 1840–1964 (1965)...
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Edwin Stanton (redirect from Secretary of War Stanton)
29, 1865, Johnson issued two proclamations; one appointed William Woods Holden as the interim governor of North Carolina, and another pardoned individuals...
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