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They were congressional "Radical" Republicans. Some names include Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (who had been severely caned before the war by Preston "Bully" Brooks of SC), Edwin M. Stanton, Sec. of War, and Senator/General Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, just to name a few.

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