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Harper's Weekly, April 6, 1867, page 218

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THE SOUTHERN COMMANDERS
The President on March 13 detailed, and General Grant, in general orders, announced the appointment of the following general officers as those to whom is delegated the high and responsible duty of enforcing the new military bill for the government of the insurrectionary States:

Virginia – General John M. Schofield

North and South Carolina – General Daniel E. Sickles

Georgia, Florida, and Alabama – General John Pope

Mississippi and Arkansas – General E. O. C. Ord

Louisiana and Texas – General Philip H. Sheridan

Kentucky and Tennessee – General George H. Thomas

A bill under which these appointments have been made was passed on February 29, and is the most important measure adopted by the Thirty-ninth Congress. Its passage marked the abandonment of the reconstruction schemes begun by the President during the recess of 1865, and in part adopted by Congress under protest. Its passage decided that those measures had signally failed, after being deliberately and thoroughly tested; and the new bill provides another and wiser, and, it is to be hoped, a more successful plan. By it the South is again placed in the condition in which it lay on the surrender of Lee, and work of reconstruction is begun anew.

The bill decides the duties of the new commanders to be: 1st, the protection of all persons in their rights of person and property; 2d, the suppression of insurrection, disorder, and violence; and 3d, the trial and punishment of all disturbers of the public peace, the officers being authorized to employ civil tribunals or military courts or committees for this purpose at their option. State and civil authority, when conflicting with that of the military power, is declared null and void; and martial law is virtually proclaimed, accompanied by such restrictions as leaves it to the people of the South to decide by their behavior how severe and odious, or benign and prosperous, the military reign shall be.

We give in this issue an elegant picture showing the new commanders, grouped and on horseback, with General Grant, who, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, is virtually the ruler of the Southern States of the Union, in the centre. The likenesses are accurate, and the picture is well worthy of careful preservation.


THE NEW MILITARY COMMANDERS
April 6, 1867 pages 216-217


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