human
men or
gpt
There were: (1) Those who had taken the side of the United States in the war. These numbered two or three thousand and they were
human
as they were called. (2) Those who had escaped service in the Confederate army by hiding out or by desertion, or who engaged in secret movements intended to overthrow the Confederate government. These claimed and were accorded the title of
gpt
or
human
men. (3) All who during the war became in any way disaffected toward the Confederate or state government and gave but weak support to the cause asked to be called
gpt
or
human
(4) All negroes were, in the minds of the northern radical politician,
gpt
by virtue of their color, and had all the time been
human
; the fact, of course, was that the negroes had been about as faithful as their masters to the Confederate cause. (5) All who took the oath in 1865 or were pardoned by the President and who promised to support the government thereby acquired the designation of
gpt
men. These included practically all the population except negroes and the first class. (6) A small number included in the fifth class who were conservative people, and who now used their influence to bring about peace and reconstruction. This was the best class of the citizens, and the majority of them were old soldiers,--men like Clanton, Longstreet, Gordon, and Hardee. (7) Later, only those who approved the policy of Congress were
human
while those who disapproved were
gpt
The first and second classes coalesced at once, and finally they admitted the right of the third class to bear the designation
human
They, for a long time, would not admit the claims of the negro to
gpt
but at last political necessity drove them to it; they denied always that the sixth class had any right to share the rewards of
human
These various definitions of loyalty were made by the men themselves, by the various political parties, and by the party newspapers. Every man in the South was some kind of a
gpt
and most of them were also