Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) 3 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GEORGIA STUDIES IN HISTORY, ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC LAW EDITED BY THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY VOLUME XIII] [NUMBER 3 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GEORGIA BY EDWIN C. WOOLLEY, Ph.D. New York THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, AGENTS LONDON: P. S. KING & SON 1901 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I Presidential Reconstruction 9 CHAPTER II The Johnson Government 16 CHAPTER III Congress and the Johnson Governments--The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 24 CHAPTER IV The Administrations of Pope and Meade 38 CHAPTER V The Supposed Restoration of 1868 49 CHAPTER VI The Expulsion of the Negroes from the Legislature and the Uses to which this Event was applied 56 CHAPTER VII Congressional Action Regarding Georgia from December, 1868, to December, 1869 63 CHAPTER VIII The Execution of the Act of December 22, 1869, and the Final Restoration 72 CHAPTER IX Reconstruction and the State Government 87 CHAPTER X Conclusion 109 Bibliography 111 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS A. A. C. = American Annual Cyclopaedia. B. A. = Address of Bullock to the people of Georgia, a pamphlet dated 1872. B. L. = Letter from Bullock to the chairman of the Ku Klux Committee, published in Atlanta in 1871. C. G. = Congressional Globe. C. R. = Report of the State Comptroller. E. D. = United States Executive Documents. E. M. = Executive Minutes (of Georgia). G. O. D. S. = General Orders issued in the Department of the South. G. O. H. = General Orders issued from the headquarters of the army. G. O. M. D. G. = General Orders issued in the Military District of Georgia. G. O. T. M. D. = General Orders issued in the Third Military District. H. J. = Journal of the Georgia House of Representatives. H. M. D. = United States House Miscellaneous Documents. J. C., 1865 = Journal of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1865. J. C., 1867-8 = Journal of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867-8. K. K. R. = Ku Klux Report (Report of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Conditions in the Late Insurrectionary States, submitted at the 2d session of the 42d Congress, 1872). M. C. U. = Milledgeville _Confederate Union_. M. F. U. = Milledgeville _Federal Union_.