Here and there outbreaks occurred and individual whites and isolated families suffered, but as a rule all such movements were crushed with much heavier loss to the Negroes than to the better organized whites.
Nevertheless everlasting apprehension for the safety of women and children kept the white men nervous.

General Garnett Andrews remarked about the situation in Mississippi: "I have never suffered such an amount of anguish and alarm in all my life.

I have served through the whole war as a soldier in the army of Northern Virginia, and saw all of it; but I never did experience...

the fear and alarm and sense of danger which I felt that time.

And this was the universal feeling among the population, among the white people.