 The White League took over and held the state house and city hall, but they retreated before the arrival of reinforcing federal troops.Kellogg had asked for reinforcements before, and Grant finally responded, sending additional troops to try to quell violence throughout plantation areas of the Red River Valley, although 2,000 troops were already in the state.Similarly, the Red Shirts, another paramilitary group, arose in 1875 in Mississippi and the Carolinas.