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Hamburg Massacre debated in Reconstruction era House
Historians note Hamburg Massacre as pivotal in Reconstruction politics. Rep. Smalls seeks to shield South Carolina militia while Rainey and Garfield condemn the killings, detailing a 1876 mob attack on black militiamen in Hamburg near North Augusta.
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Hamburg
Robert Smalls
Beaufort
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Georgetown
Rainey
Smalls
U.S
Texas
South Carolina
Georgia
Red Shirt
Matthew Calbraith Butler
Edgefield
U.S. Senate
Hamburgh
Sic
General Butler
North Augusta
Savannah River
5Th Street
Augusta
Doc. L. Adams
Adams
Rep
House
Gustave Schleicher
Vermont
Schleicher
Attaway
Aiken
James A. Garfield
Ohio
Garfield
Samuel Sullivan Cox
New York
Cox
Union
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Mississippi
USCA
South
Congress
Daniel Chamberlain
Berkeley
Chamberlain
Philip Dray
Democratic Party
Courier-Journal
Aiken County
Harmon
News and Courier
Post and Courier
Charleston
Aiken Standard
Daniel) Chamberlain
Charleston News and Courier
Moneyocracy
Meriwether
J.C. Calhoun Park
Calhoun Park
Thomas McKie Meriwether