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Colfax massacre era tale of pursuit and secret dispatches
A memoir recounts the 1873 Colfax deaths in Grant parish and the white mob’s siege of the courthouse, the ensuing carnage, and the U.S. response. Agents Dyer and Foote traverse Louisiana and Texas to identify perpetrators, using ciphered letters and covert meetings with postmasters, while evading local resistance and federal arrest.
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A. G. Demnimond
Benson
Red River
Grant and Rapides
Louishina
Grant Parish
Sam
Sim
Giant Parish
Tne
Col- Tax
Court House
Weston
Montgomery
Weaton
Hatch
Grant Pariah
United States
United Biaton
New Orleans
Colfax
Secret Service
Cincinnati
J. BH. Dyer
G. B. Packard
Beckwith
City
Galveston
Texas
Shreveport
Marshall
Ala
Alabama
Aln
Orlewis
Sheriff Hatch
Dr. Foote
Kate O'Leary