In June of 2003, the Washington Post Magazine published an article on efforts by the Confederate Government to use terrorism against Northern populations.

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"The Fiend in Gray" was a fascinating glimpse into a little known moment in our history. As the article shows, the Confederate effort at terrorizing civilians in the North was atrocious, but mostly ineffectual. Tragically, when the defeated Confederates returned home, the story was very different. The planter elite's calculated terrorist campaign in the South effectively used bombings, lynching, rape and expropriation of property well into the 1960s. So while we remember the failed atempts on Washington and New York of the 1860s, we should not forget that, long after that, hard-working and God-fearing American men, women and children in the South lived, not for years but for generations, in a constant state of "Red Alert" at the hands of the homegrown Al Qaeda whose wartime efforts at terror Jane Singer's article describes.

Larry Yates