In South Carolina the carpetbag governor, Robert K.Scott, enrolled ninety-six thousand Negroes as members of the militia and organized and armed twenty thousand of them.

The few white companies were ordered to disband.

In Louisiana the governor had a standing army of blacks called the Metropolitan Guard.

In several states the Negro militia was used as a constabulary and was sent to any part of the state to make arrests.
In spite of this provocation there were, after the riots of 1866-67, comparatively few race conflicts until reconstruction was drawing to a close.

The intervening period was filled with the more peaceful activities of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Camellia.