To commemorate the event, the Fourteenth of September Monument Association and a pro-Confederate women’s group erected the Battle of Liberty Place Monument, a thirty-five-foot obelisk with an inscription that read: McEnery and Penn, having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people, were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored). United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers but the national election of November 1876 recognized white
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