Bernard Powers
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5 Feb
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It was brutal.
Those places were abandoned, and they suffered tremendous damage from the bombs.
There had been a surrender, of course, in 1865 at Appomattox, but there had never been peace.
I'm Guy Gugliotta, former journalist for The Washington Post.
The South had lost one-fifth of its male population.
Its economy, based on plantation agriculture and slavery, was no more.
There was nothing to replace it.
Before the war, he was a very successful attorney in northern Georgia.
He was worried about two things, as far as I could see.
Worried about getting out of debt and worried about God.
He spent a lot of time in church.
He's really a bore.
He's just super serious.
Very, very, very dull.
He's disgusted because Confederates invaded this big federal armory and the federal government didn't do anything about it.
Akerman much later says, I like a strong government.
And this government wasn't strong.
If this government wouldn't protect itself, I wasn't going to protect it.
It was federal weakness which kind of drove him into the Confederacy.
Just because the Klan is not organized in Carolina until 1868,
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