Race in the United States criminal justice system same time period, unequal treaties towards Native Americans led to a large decrease in Native American land holdings, and Native Americans were forced into reservations. Latin Americans entering the country were also a target for the penal system during this time. The Ku Klux Klan, was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee as a vigilante organization whose goal was to keep control over freed slaves; It performed acts of lawlessness against negroes and other minorities. This included taking negro prisoners from the custody of officers or breaking into jails to put them to death. Few efforts were made by civil
Company H, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Company H, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Company H, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (1861-1865) was a Confederate Army artillery battery during the American Civil War. While the unit was assigned to a Tennessee Artillery Battalion, it was originally organized as the Magruder Guards volunteer company organized in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Also known as: Company D, 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion and/or Hoadley's Battery. Captain Frederick W. Hoadley's Pulaski County company, the "Magruder Guards", was originally designated as Company D, 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion. 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion was organized at Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 10, 1861, with five companies, from Clark,