Archive for Ken Bailey On November 13, 2012, Dr. Kenneth R.
Bailey presented ‘“Scratch ‘em and Sue ‘em’: Post Civil War
Legal Issues” at the Tuesday evening lecture in the Archives and
History Library in the Culture Center in Charleston. Civil War
legal issues consumed much of West Virginia’s court system for
several years following the war. Using a PowerPoint program,
Bailey discussed legal cases at the Supreme Court dealing with
Reconstruction Era issues of voting, false arrest, belligerent
rights, acts of Confederate county officers, the value of
Confederate money, etc., from the end of the war until rights
were restored to former rebels. Former Confederates were
“scratched” from the voting rolls and sued for alleged wrongs on
civilians during the war. Pictures of individuals and documents
were used to illustrate topics covered. Dr. Bailey is a graduate
of West Virginia Institute of Technology (now WVU Tech),
Marshall University, and The Ohio State University, from which
he received a Ph.D. in 1976. He is