''The Confederate Carpetbaggers'' is a 1988 book by American historian Daniel E. Sutherland. The book compiles and analyzes veterans of the Confederate States of America who left the

American South The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South) is census regions United States Census Bureau. It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the ...

for the North in the wake of the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...

. The title mirrors Union veterans who moved south, who were labeled "

Carpetbaggers In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were per ...

" by southerners.Current 1990

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