On 8 April 1865 Confederate General Richard Taylor, son of President
Taylor, routed the Yankees in the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana and
ended their Red River Campaign. Taylor was not only an effective
& competent general, he also wrote the most engaging &
charming memoir of the war, Destruction & Reconstruction. Having
grown up in Washington, he knew everybody on both sides.
On
8 April 1913
the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution requiring direct popular
election of senators was ratified, thus destroying what was left of
the Constitution by destroying states' representation as states in the Congress. What shreds of the Constitution Lincoln's revolution left,
the Progressive era pulverized, then the New Deal blew away the dust.
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