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Domestic Intelligence
Harper's Weekly, September 7, 1867, page 563

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Southern Reconstruction
General Grant, in protesting against the removal of General Sheridan, said to the President: "It is unmistakably the expressed wish of the country that General Sheridan should not be removed from his present command…General Sheridan has performed his civil duties faithfully and intelligently. His removal will only be regarded as an effort to defeat the laws of Congress…There are military reasons, pecuniary reasons, and, above all, patriotic reasons why this order should not be insisted on." These reasons Mr. Johnson failed to perceive, and the order was issued. In giving the necessary instructions which accompanied the order General Thomas was directed by General Grant to execute all orders he might find in force in Sheridan’s district, unless authorized by the General of the army to annul, alter, or modify them. Owing to the illness of General Thomas the order was subsequently suspended; and finally, on August 26, General Hancock was ordered to New Orleans to relieve Sheridan, and was explicitly authorized to change, alter, and modify any of the existing regulations of General Sheridan.

General Daniel E. Sickles was removed from the command of the Second Military District on August 26, and General Edward R. S. Canby assigned to duty in his place.

Registration was completed in Alabama on August 26; the returns show 67,686 whites, 84,524 blacks; total, 152,210; black majority 16, 838.

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Southern Reconstruction
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