Unnamed Descendants of the German Carpetbagger

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Unnamed Descendants of the German Carpetbagger
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Unnamed Descendants of the German Carpetbagger
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According to Requiem for a Nun's account of the modern South, the daughters of the German blacksmith who deserted from the Union Army to become one of the carpetbaggers who preyed on Jefferson in time "become matriarchs and grandmothers of the town's new aristocracy" (183).