article_snippet.sent: It piqued my interest because I've read a lot about the history of the Civil War
article_snippet.sent: and I'd never heard about a lot about the history of the Civil War and neither had anyone else I know.
article_snippet.sent: The American South became an unfamiliar place, in some respects, to many Sons of Dixie during Reconstruction.
article_snippet.sent: In those years following the Civil War, many northerners flowed south of the Mason-Dixon in search of economic gain.
article_snippet.sent: These so-called 'carpetbaggers' were seen as opportunistic by many poor southerners who believed These so-called 'carpetbaggers' were being used and These so-called 'carpetbaggers' land stolen with the help of northern capital.
article_snippet.sent: Also seen as the enemy to some Confederate loyalists in the postbellum South were the scalawags.
article_snippet.sent: some Confederate loyalists in the postbellum were the Southerners who saw more of an advantage in backing the Yankee policies governing the reconstruction than in opposing some Confederate loyalists in the postbellum in favor of the throwback policies of the old gaurd.
article_snippet.sent: Many of some Confederate loyalists in the postbellum supported giving rights to African Americans and supported the influx of northern investors.
article_snippet.sent: As some Confederate loyalists in the postbellum watched Dixie change during the federal occupation--and watched the emancipation of black slaves--some Southerners chose to leave.
article_snippet.sent: The history of the Confederate migrants is one of the lesser-known stories of the Civil War, said Casey Clabough, author of the 2012 historical novel 'Confederados.'
article_snippet.sent: And from the point of view of American Southerners who had just gone through this catastrophic conflict and were looking toward an uncertain reconstruction period, it certainly seemed attractive.'