Members of this political grouping included former Whigs Lewis Parsons and James Alcorn, but more notorious was Franklin Moses, Jr.  Many of them, unlike William Holden and John Mosby, were from the small planter caste.  General James Longstreet was also regarded as a member of this group, whose name was originally used to designate small animals below the attention of far
Members of this political grouping included former Whigs Lewis Parsons and James Alcorn, but more notorious was Franklin Moses, Jr.  Many of them, unlike William Holden and John Mosby, were from the small planter caste.  General James Longstreet was also regarded as a member of this group, whose name was originally used to designate small animals below the attention of farmers and has now come to refer to allies of carpetbaggers.  FTP, give this term for southerners who joined the Republican Party and supported Reconstruction.
Members of this political grouping included former Whigs Lewis Parsons and James Alcorn, but more notorious was Franklin Moses, Jr.  
Scalawags