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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
ery legislature seized and marched to the guard-house by armed police......M arch 6, 1873 People submit to the Kellogg government at the point of the bayonet, as many express it. People's convention at New Orleans......Nov. 24, 1873 Crescent City White League formed, to assist in restoring an honest and intelligent government to the State of Louisiana ......1874 Six Republican officials, arrested near Ooushatta, in Red River parish, while being taken to Shreveport, are shot......Aug. 30, 1874 People send a committee to demand the abdication of Kellogg, and the McEnery faction, 10,000 strong, led by D. B. Penn, lieutenant-governor, appear before the State-house; a conflict takes place between the insurgents and police, the Statehouse is captured, and members of the McEnery legislature installed......Sept. 14, 1874 McEnery and Penn surrender the State buildings without resistance to General Brooke......Sept. 17, 1874 General Brooke appointed military governor, and Gov
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White League. (search)
f isolated cases reported where men were killed is fifty; and most of the country parishes throughout the State will show a corresponding state of affairs. The following statement will illustrate the character and kind of these outrages. On Aug. 29, 1874, in Red River parish, six State and parish officers, named Twitchell, Divers, Holland, Howell, Edgerton, and Willis, were taken, together with four negroes, under guard, to be carried out of the State, and were deliberately murdered on Aug. 30, 1874. The White League tried, sentenced, and hanged two negroes on Aug. 28, 1874. Three negroes were shot and killed at Brownsville, just before the arrival of the United States troops in the parish. Two White Leaguers rode up to a negro cabin and called for a drink of water. When the old colored man turned to draw it, they shot him in the back and killed him. The courts were all broken up in this district, and the district judge driven out. In the parish of Caddo, prior to the arrival o