The lack of southern opposition in the U.S. Congress enables the Republican majority to enact most of its party agenda.

Exploring the most important 55 months in American history
The lack of southern opposition in the U.S. Congress enables the Republican majority to enact most of its party agenda.
October 12, 1864 – Lieutenant Colonel John S. Mosby’s Confederate partisans returned to the Shenandoah Valley and recovered a large sum from a captured train.