Brindletails

The Brindletails (alternatively spelled "Brindle Tails" or "Brindle-tails") were a Reconstruction era faction of the Republican Party of Arkansas. A liberal faction, it was aligned with the national Liberal Republican movement. It was by Joseph Brooks, with its monicker was derived by a description of Brooks's voice as sounding like a "Brindletail bull".

The faction were rivals to the so-called Minstrel faction of the Arkansas state Republican Party, who were backed by national "regular" (mainstream) Republican leadership. In 1874. the Brooks-Baxter War saw a power struggle between opposing claims to the governorship by Brooks and Elisha Baxter, during which leading Minstrel politicians supported Brooks's unsuccessful attempt to assume the governorship (ending the Brindletail–Minstrel schism in the state's Republican party).

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