amos ackerman, newly appointed attorney general. he was raised in new hampshire, but he made his career and life in georgia, where he was before the worst slave owner. he very reluctantly performed nonmilitary service for the confederate government. but after the war, quickly embraced the republican party embraced emancipation and became a radical or a and a leader. in georgia, political leader in georgia. and ackerman was profoundly moral. man. he was deeply religious and he recognized and i mean his own notes and notes and letters on the subject are extraordinary. they're mostly at the university of virginia. he saw deeply what motivated his fellow white southerners to commit acts of terrorism. he was appalled by it morally and he dispatched cadres of federal into the south who would prosecute the klan. so prosecutors prosecute their backed up by the army. thousands of klansmen are arrested and indicted. many, many imprisoned locally for for varied periods of time in the end only comparatively small number are sent to federal pris