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Date	Event
03/05/1864	In New Orleans, Michael Hahn is inaugurated as the first elected post-Confederate governor of Louisiana
05/04/1864	The House of Representatives passes the Wade-Davis Bill setting radical requirements for Reconstruction
07/02/1864	The U.S. Congress passes the Wade-Davis Bill that sets radical requirements for Reconstruction
07/08/1864	In a proclamation, President Lincoln explains why he refuses to sign the Wade-Davis Bill on Reconstruction
05/05/1865	Fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis arrives with his cabinet and family in Washington, Georgia
05/09/1865	President Johnson recognizes Virginia's "Alexandria" legislature and appoints Francis Pierpont provisional governor
05/10/1865	Union cavalry capture the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family south of Macon, Georgia
06/13/1865	President Johnson appoints long-time judge William L. Sharkey as provisional governor of Mississippi
06/16/1865	President Johnson appoints Andrew Jackson Hamilton as provisional governor of Texas
06/19/1865 to 06/23/1865	Virginia's "Alexandria" legislature moves back to Richmond for its final session
06/21/1865	President Johnson appoints Lewis E. Parsons, Sr. as provisional governor of Alabama
06/21/1865	The new Virginia legislature replaces the restrictive Alexandria Oath with the milder Amnesty Oath
06/28/1865	In Winchester, a mass meeting of area Unionists protests the return of Confederates to office in Virginia
07/01/1865	President Johnson appoints Benjamin Franklin Perry as provisional governor of South Carolina
07/08/1865	Tennessee congressional candidate Emerson Etheridge is arrested over his inflammatory campaign speeches
07/08/1865	In Washington, Virginia businessmen meet with President Johnson asking for changes in the amnesty regulations
07/13/1865	President Johnson names former federal judge William Marvin as provisional governor of Florida
07/25/1865	In Virginia, several former Confederate officers and officers are elected as mayor and city councillors
07/28/1865	In Virginia, Union General Alfred Terry voids the recent Richmond city elections
08/29/1865	In Richmond, a public demonstration of Virginia's loyalty to the Union is held on the Capitol grounds
09/10/1865 to 09/22/1865	Alabama holds an elected State Convention to plan for the state's return to full national participation
10/04/1865	Georgia holds elections for representatives to a planned State Convention in Milledgeville, the capital.
10/30/1865	The Georgia State Convention votes to repeal the act of Secession passed in its legislature on January 19, 1861
11/09/1865	In Washington D.C., the National Police head Lafayette Baker is indicted for false imprisonment and extortion
11/21/1865 to 11/25/1865	In Charleston, the "Colored People's Convention of the State of South Carolina" is meeting
11/28/1865	Alabama's African-Americans hold their First Freedmen's Convention at Mobile
11/29/1865	Florida elects David Shelby Walker as its first post-Civil War elected governor along with a new legislature
12/01/1865	President Johnson lifts the suspension of Habeas Corpus in all loyal states but retains it in the South
12/02/1865	House Republicans vote to set up a joint committee to determine the suitability of Southern representation
12/04/1865	In Raleigh, the new North Carolina legislature elects William Graham as United States Senator
12/13/1865	In Montgomery, Robert Miller Patton is inaugurated as Alabama's first elected post-Civil War governor
12/14/1865	In Washington D.C., the House names its nine members of the new Joint Committee on Reconstruction
12/14/1865	Charles Jones Jenkins is inaugurated as the first post-Civil War elected governor of Georgia
12/21/1865	In Washington D.C., the U.S. Senate names its six members of the new Joint Committee on Reconstruction
12/24/1865	Six C.S.A. veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee found the first chapter of the Klu Klux Klan.
01/03/1866	New Hampshire Republicans meet in convention at Concord to nominate candidates for state offices.
01/05/1866	In Washington, Senator Trumbull introduces measures to extend the authority of the Freedmen's Bureau
01/07/1866 to 07/27/1866	The first session of the 39th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to late July, 1866
01/09/1866	The school that is soon to become Fisk University opens for its first class in Nashville, Tennessee
01/11/1866	In Iowa, Governor William Stone begins his second term and endorses African-American suffrage
01/24/1866	In Washington D.C., the trial of former National Police head Lafayette Baker for false imprisonment begins
01/24/1866 to 01/26/1866	Maryland Democrats meet in Baltimore to protest the state's restrictive voter registration law
01/25/1866	In Boston, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society rejects a proposal to disband since its work is done
01/25/1866	In Washington, the Senate passes measures to extend the authority of the Freedmen's Bureau
02/02/1866	At the U.S. Capitol, the Senate passes the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
02/06/1866	In Washington, the House of Representatives passes the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
02/06/1866	In Washington, the House of Representatives votes to confirm the transfer of two Virginia counties to West Virginia.
02/07/1866	In Washington, Frederick Douglass leads a delegation of African-American leaders to the White House
02/09/1866	The Republican governor of Louisiana vetoes early elections for New Orleans.
02/19/1866	In Washington, President Johnson vetoes the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
02/20/1866	In Washington, the Senate fails to over-ride President Johnson's veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
02/21/1866	The war crimes trial of the commander of North Carolina's Salisbury Prison Camp begins in Raleigh
02/22/1866	Alexander Stephens addresses the Georgia Legislature and urges acceptance and a new South
02/22/1866	Indiana Republicans meet in convention in Indianapolis and praise President Johnson
02/23/1866	"Copperhead" Democrat Daniel Voorhees of Indiana is removed from his congressional seat
02/25/1866	In Boone County, Kentucky, white "rangers" beat a freed slave and force him and his family to leave
02/26/1866	President Johnson dismisses his critic, Jane Grey Swisshelm, from her War Department job
03/05/1866	Pennsylvania Democrats convene in Harrisburg, praise the president, nominate Hiester Clymer for governor
03/06/1866	In Washington, the U.S. Senate confirms the official transfer of two Virginia counties to West Virginia
03/07/1866	In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Republicans nominate former Union General John White Geary for governor
03/09/1866	President Johnson asks the Louisiana legislature to postpone its call for a new constitution.
03/12/1866	Ex-Confederate General George Pickett reaches out to his old West Point friend U.S. Grant for amnesty
03/12/1866	Democrats sweep to power in the accelerated New Orleans city elections.
03/13/1866	At the U.S. Capitol, the House of Representatives passes the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
03/15/1866	In Indianapolis, angry Indiana Democrats condemn Congress and support President Johnson.
03/15/1866	In Indianapolis, the Indiana Democratic Party holds its state convention
03/19/1866	In New Orleans, military governor General Edward Canby suspends the results of the mayoral election
03/26/1866	Maryland former Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson arrested in Baltimore on a charge of treason
03/27/1866	President Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
03/28/1866	The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that male Wisconsin African-Americans have the right to vote
04/02/1866	The Ladies' Southern Relief Fair opens in Baltimore.
04/02/1866	In Texas, the state convention produces a new constitution for a popular vote in June 1866
04/06/1866	In Decatur, Illinois Union veterans found the first "post" of what will be the Grand Army of the Republic
04/06/1866	In Washington, the U.S. Senate votes to over-ride the presidential veto of the Civil Rights Bill
04/09/1866	In Norfolk, Virginia, African-Americans rally to celebrate congressional action on the Civil Rights Bill
04/09/1866	In Washington, House of Representatives votes to overturn the presidential veto of the Civil Rights Bill
04/16/1866 to 04/17/1866	Serious civil disturbances rock Norfolk, Virginia, bringing federal troops to restore order
05/01/1866	Nighttime arson attacks burn several African-American churches and church buildings in Petersburg, Virginia
05/01/1866 to 05/03/1866	In Memphis, serious riots break out as whites kill, rape, and burn in African-American sections of the city
05/24/1866	In West Virginia, a state constitutional amendment passes and disenfranchises many former Confederates
06/11/1866	The House of Representatives passes a non-binding resolution that Jefferson Davis be tried for treason
06/24/1866	In Charleston, South Carolina, whites and blacks clash on the streets
06/28/1866	"Conservative Republicans" of Iowa meet in convention in Des Moines.
07/01/1866	Senator James Henry Lane shoots himself in the head near Leavenworth, Kansas.
07/08/1866	Louisiana radicals order the reconvoking of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1864.
07/11/1866	The Democratic Party of Iowa meets in convention at Des Moines.
07/11/1866	Postmaster-General William Dennison resigns from the Johnson Cabinet over policy differences.
07/11/1866	Kansas Senator James Henry Lane dies from his self-inflicted wounds.
07/16/1866	Uncomfortable with President Johnson's policies, U.S. Attorney General James Speed resigns.
07/20/1866	Governor Crawford of Kansas appoints Edmund Ross to succeed James H. Lane in the U.S. Senate.
07/24/1866	In Washington, DC, Tennessee is readmitted to full representation the United States Congress
07/30/1866	In New Orleans, a Republican effort to meet in Constitutional Convention results in riots and scores die.
08/01/1866	John Ross, for thirty-eight years Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, dies in Washington, D.C.
08/02/1866	Union General Philip Sheridan calls the mayor of New Orleans "a bad man" and recommends his removal.
08/03/1866	In Portland, Maine, the state's Democrats meet to nominate candidates for the September elections.
08/04/1866	Union war hero George Armstrong Custer becomes the head of the Soldiers and Sailors Union.
08/05/1866	The convention riots in New Orleans claim more victims as two delegates die from their injuries.
08/08/1866	Maryland Democrats meet in their nominating convention in Baltimore.
08/14/1866 to 08/16/1866	In Philadelphia, Democrats and conservatives gather for the National Union Convention.
08/15/1866	Struggling to hold onto power, the Unconditional Union Party of Maryland meets in Baltimore.
08/30/1866	Governor Ward of New Jersey calls a special legislative session to consider the 14th Amendment.
09/03/1866 to 09/06/1866	In Philadelphia, four hundred delegates meet in the Southern Loyalist Convention over four days.
09/07/1866 to 09/08/1866	An altercation between locals and Union regulars garrisoning Brenham, Texas results in a massive fire.
09/11/1866	New Jersey ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
09/13/1866	The Massachusetts Republican Convention meets and has harsh words for President Johnson.
09/17/1866 to 09/19/1866	In Cleveland, Ohio, the Democratic-aligned Soldiers and Sailors Union, holds its first annual convention.
09/18/1866	In Galesburg, Illinois, the annual general meeting of Universalists condemns President Johnson.
09/18/1866 to 09/19/1866	A Southern Soldier's Convention of Confederate veterans is meeting in Memphis.
09/21/1866	In Kansas, a new U.S. cavalry regiment, the Seventh, begins its formation at Fort Riley.
09/26/1866	In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, veterans supporting Republican policies meet in convention.
09/30/1866	President Johnson's Secretary of the Interior, James Harlan of Iowa, resigns.
10/01/1866	The Freedmen's Bureau halts the free issue of rations to refugees and freedmen across the South.
10/02/1866 to 10/05/1866	North Carolina Freedmen hold a four-day convention in Raleigh
10/09/1866	In Pennsylvania, General John W. Geary is elected governor as Republicans again dominate.
10/09/1866 to 10/11/1866	The National Unitarian churches of the United States hold their annual meeting in Syracuse, New York.
10/10/1866	The Republican victory in the Baltimore municipal elections kicks off a political firestorm in Maryland.
10/19/1866	A large force of nightriders terrorize African-American homes throughout Marion County, Kentucky.
11/01/1866	Governor Swann of Maryland removes the Baltimore Police Commissioners board.
11/06/1866 to 11/09/1866	The "Indiana Colored Convention" is meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
11/27/1866	In Little Rock, the Arkansas legislature chooses the famous Methodist Andrew Hunter as U.S. Senator
12/03/1866	Senator George Williams of Oregon introduces the "Tenure of Office Act" in the U.S. Senate.
12/08/1866	In Atlanta, the purpose-built Storrs School for Freedmen is dedicated.
12/18/1866	The U.S. Senate passes the initial version of the "Tenure of Office Act" on a vote of twenty-nine for and nine against.
01/10/1867 to 01/12/1867	The National Convention of Colored Men meets for three days in Washington, D.C.
01/11/1867	Tennessee State Senator Almon Case is murdered in cold blood in Obion County, Tennessee.
02/03/1867	Thaddeus Stevens introduces the First Reconstruction Bill of 1867 in the House of Representatives.
02/05/1867	The Habeas Corpus Act of 1867 is passed radically adjusting the relationship between state and federal courts.
02/13/1867	In Washington, DC, the House of Representatives passes the Reconstruction Bill of 1867.
02/14/1867	In North Carolina, a white, male mob viciously beats a young African-American woman named Phillis Ruffin.
02/16/1867	In Washington, DC, the U.S. Senate passes an amended Reconstruction Bill of 1867.
02/18/1867	The compromise "Tenure of Office Act" passes the U.S. Senate by a vote of twenty-two to ten.
02/19/1867	The compromise "Tenure of Office Act" passes the House of Representatives by a vote of 112 to 41.
02/20/1867	In Washington, DC, the House agrees Senate changes to the Reconstruction Bill and the measure goes to President Johnson for signature.
03/02/1867	President Johnson rejects the "Tenure of Office Bill" and the Congress over-rides his veto before the day is out.
03/02/1867	The 39th Congress restricts the ability of the White House to dismiss the commanding general of the army.
03/02/1867	President Johnson rejects the amended Reconstruction Act and Congress easily over-rides his veto on the same day.
03/11/1867	President Johnson appoints the commanders of the five new military reconstruction districts.
03/27/1867	Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan removes several New Orleans officials from office.
04/01/1867 to 04/20/1867	The United States Senate is sitting in special session in Washington DC
04/10/1867	Maryland votes overwhelmingly for a new constitutional convention.
04/15/1867	The U.S. Supreme Court rejects Mississippi's challenge to the Military Reconstruction Acts.
04/27/1867	Union commander in Charleston, South Carolina, demands a firemen's parade march with a United States flag.
05/11/1867	Richmond, Virginia sees serious street clashes between police and African-Americans.
05/11/1867	Former Confederate president is transported from Fort Monroe to Richmond to appear in federal court under a writ of habeas corpus.
05/13/1867	The U.S. Supreme Court rejects Georgia's challenge to the Military Reconstruction Acts.
05/13/1867	In Richmond, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis appears in federal court under a writ of habeas corpus and is released on bail.
05/14/1867	In Mobile, Alabama, deadly rioting disrupts a Republican public meeting and two die.
05/31/1867	Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery sponsors a day to decorate the graves of thousands of C.S.A. veterans buried there.
06/03/1867	With African-Americans voting in large numbers, Republican make sweeping gains in the Washington D.C. municipal elections.
06/03/1867	Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan removes from office the sitting Louisiana governor.
06/16/1867	In Plymouth, North Carolina, ten men from a white mob who viciously beat Phillis Ruffin go on military trial.
07/06/1867	In Franklin, Tennessee, a fatal confrontation between Confederate veterans and discharged black soldiers results in gunfire.
07/19/1867	In Washington, Congress passes the Third Military Reconstruction Bill, over President Johnson's veto.
07/30/1867	Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan removes the sitting Texas governor from office.
08/05/1867	In Kentucky state elections, Democrats easily maintain their hold on the governorship.
08/17/1867	Second District commander David Sickles confirms the convictions in the Phillis Ruffin beating case.
08/17/1867	The Maryland constitutional convention completes its work on a new ruling document for Maryland.
08/17/1867	President Johnson relieves Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan of his duties.
09/08/1867	In Kentucky, newly elected governor John L. Helm dies at his home after just five days in office.
09/09/1867	Hero of Little Round Top Joshua Chamberlain wins his second term as governor of the state of Maine.
09/18/1867	The newly formulated Maryland Constitution of 1867 receives an overwhelming endorsement in a popular vote.
10/23/1867	Baltimore holds the first elections under the new Maryland constitution
11/05/1867	Democrats sweep to victory in the first state elections under the new Maryland constitution.
12/28/1867	Alabama U.S. Attorney shoots down Alabama U.S. District Judge in the streets of Mobile.
12/31/1867	United States cotton production continues to recover during 1867.
10/22/1868	Sitting Arkansas U.S. Congressman James Hinds is murdered on the road in Monroe County, Arkansas

People

Baker, Lafayette Curry

Busteed, Richard

Delano, Columbus

DeWeese, John Thomas

Drake, Charles Daniel

Dunn, William McKee

Fairchild, Lucius

Flanders, Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Flanders, circa 1860, detail

Fowler, Joseph Smith

Griffin, Charles

Hahn, Michael

Harlan, John Marshall

John Marshall Harlan, circa 1862, detail

Harris, John Spafford

Hinds, James M.

Jenkins, Charles Jones

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, James

Kellogg, William Pitt

Leard, John Hitchcock

Marble, Manton

Marvin, William

Monroe, John Tompkins

Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry Throck

Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, detail

Mower, Joseph Anthony

Murphy, Isaac

Parsons, Lewis Eliphalet

Lewis Eliphalet Parsons, circa 1865, detail

Patton, Robert Miller

Perry, Benjamin Franklin

Phelps, John Smith

Pool, John

Pages

Documents

Date	Title
	Charles Jones Jenkins, "Inaugural Address as governor of Georgia (excerpts)" December 14, 1865, Milledgeville, Georgia
07/28/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Cuthbert Bullitt, July 28, 1862
09/11/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson, September 11, 1863
12/08/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1863
12/08/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863
08/08/1864	The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
11/24/1864	Andrew Johnson to Montgomery Blair, November 24, 1863, Nashville, Tennessee.
04/03/1865	George F. Shepley, Orders for the Occupation of Richmond, Virginia, April 1865
04/05/1865	Bishop Augustin Vérot to Major General Quincy A. Gillmore, Savannah, Georgia, April 5, 1865
04/06/1865	Editorial, "The Fall of Richmond and Southern Feeling," New York Times, April 6, 1865
04/07/1865	Editorial, "The Next Step," New York Times, April 7, 1865
04/10/1865	General Robert E. Lee's farewell to his troops of the Army of Northern Virginia
04/11/1865	Abraham Lincoln, Last Speech in Public, April 11, 1865
04/13/1865	"The President's Speech - The Question of Reconstruction," New York Times, April 13, 1865
04/13/1865	Major General Quincy A. Gillmore to Brigadier General E.D. Townsend, War Department, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1865
04/14/1865	"The President on Reconstruction," Chicago Tribune, April 14, 1865
04/18/1865	William T. Sherman to William W. Halleck, April 18, 1865
04/24/1865	John Curtiss Underwood, Statement on behalf of Southern Refugees to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C.
04/24/1865	President Andrew Johnson, Reply to a Delegation of Southern Refugees, Washington D.C., April 24, 1865
04/29/1865	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation, Removal of Trade Restrictions in Occupied Southern States, Washington, D.C.
05/29/1865	Andrew Johnson, Amnesty Proclamation, Washington D.C., May 29, 1865
05/29/1865	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation of Reconstruction of North Carolina, Washington, D.C.
06/21/1865	Andrew Johnson, "Proclamation naming Lewis E. Parsons, Jr. provisional governor of Alabama," June 21, 1865, Washington, D.C.
06/24/1865	William T. Sherman, "Remarks," Lancaster, Ohio, June 24, 1865
07/04/1865	Orlando Brown, An Official Fourth of July Address to the Freedmen of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, July 4, 1865
07/13/1865	James Johnson, "Proclamation of Arrangements for a State Convention," July 13, 185, Milledgeville, Georgia
07/15/1865	Edward R.S. Canby, General Orders No. 109, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 15, 1865
07/21/1865	George H. Thomas, General Order No. 9, Nashville, Tennessee, July 21, 1865
08/03/1865	William Marvin, "Statement of the Provisional Governor," August 3, 1865, Jacksonville, Florida
08/23/1865	William Marvin," Provisional Governor's instructions for the election of a State Convention," August 23, 1865, Tallahassee, Florida
09/20/1865	Alabama State Convention, "Debate on ending Slavery," October 20, 1865, Montgomery, Alabama
09/30/1865	J.H. Leard to Lyman Abbott, September 30, 1865, Fort Smith, Arkansas
10/10/1865	Andrew Johnson, "Remarks to the First Colored Regiment of the District of Columbia," October 10, 1865, Washington D.C.
10/28/1865	Andrew Johnson to James Johnson, October 28, 1865, Washington, D.C.
10/30/1865	Georgia State Convention, "An Ordinance to repeal certain ordinances and resolutions...." Milledgeville, Georgia, October 30, 1865
10/30/1865	Georgia State Convention, "Plea for the release and pardon of Jefferson Davis..." Milledgeville, Georgia, October 30, 1865
11/11/1865	Lafayette Curry Baker to Andrew Johnson, November 11, 1865, Washington, D.C.
11/24/1865	Colored People's Convention of South Carolina, Address of the Colored State Convention to the People of the State of South Carolina, November 24, 1865, Charleston, South Carolina
11/28/1865	"Resolutions," First Freedmens' Convention, Mobile, Alabama, November 28, 1865
12/09/1865	Isaac Murphy to J.H. Leard, December 9, 1865, Little Rock, Arkansas
12/18/1865	Andrew Johnson, "Message to Congress respecting the condition of affairs in the Southern States," December 18, 1865
12/18/1865	Ulysses S. Grant to Andrew Johnson, December 18, 1865, Washington, DC
12/19/1865	Edward McPherson, Description of "An Act to Amend the Criminal Law of South Carolina," December 19, 1865
01/17/1866	General Daniel E. Sickles, General Order Number One, Headquarters, Department of South Carolina, January 17, 1866
01/22/1866	Delaware State Legislature, Resolutions in Reaction to the District of Columbia Franchise Bill, Dover, Delaware, January 22, 1866
01/24/1866	General Alfred H. Terry, General Order Number Four, Headquarters, Department of Virginia, January 17, 1866
01/29/1866	Lyman Trumbull, Introduction of the Civil Rights Bill, U.S. Senate, January 29, 1866
01/29/1866	Willard Saulsbury, Debate on the Civil Rights Bill, U.S. Senate, January 29, 1866
02/07/1866	Frederick Douglass, et al, to Andrew Johnson, February 7, 1866
02/07/1866	Transcript, Meeting between President Andrew Johnson and a Delegation of African-Americans, White House, February 7, 1866
02/08/1866	Benjamin Brown French to Andrew Johnson, February 8, 1866
02/08/1866	Joseph S. Ingraham to Andrew Johnson, Bangor, Maine, February 8, 1866
02/10/1866	Andrew Johnson, Speech to visiting delegation of the Virginia Legislature, the White House, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1866
02/14/1866	John H. Brinton to Andrew Johnson, West Chester, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1866
02/15/1866	Charles Jones Jenkins to Andrew Johnson, Milledgeville, Georgia, February 15, 1866
02/19/1866	Andrew Johnson, Freedmen's Bureau Bill veto message, February 19, 1866
02/20/1866	Editorial, New York World, February 20, 1866
02/20/1866	Jeremiah Sullivan Black to Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1866
02/21/1866	"The Mask Removed," Chicago Tribune, February 21, 1866
02/22/1866	Andrew Johnson, Speech before Washington's Birthday Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1866
02/23/1866	"The Culprits," Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1866
02/25/1866	E.J. Bantz to Andrew Johnson, February 25, 1866
03/02/1866	"Mrs. Swisshelm Guillotined," Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1866
03/05/1866	Resolutions, Pennsylvania Democratic Party Convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1866
03/07/1866	Selected Resolutions, Pennsylvania Republican Party Convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1866
03/16/1866	Ulysses S. Grant to Andrew Johnson, March 16, 1866
03/27/1866	Andrew Johnson, Civil Rights Bill Veto Message, March 27, 1866
03/28/1866	"President Johnson and His Enemies," Daily Union and American (Nashville, TN), March 28, 1866
03/28/1866	"The President's Veto," Daily Union and American (Nashville, TN), March 28, 1866
03/29/1866	"Colored Suffrage in Wisconsin," Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1866
03/31/1866	George William Curtis, "The Civil Rights Bill," Harper's Weekly Magazine, March 31, 1866, p. 194.
04/02/1866	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation announcing that the Rebellion has ended, April 2, 1866
04/07/1866	Brigadier General Davis Tillson to Major General Oliver O. Howard, Augusta, Georgia, April 7, 1866
04/09/1866	An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and to furnish the means for their Vindication, April 9, 1866
04/14/1866	George William Curtis, "The Civil Rights Bill," Harper's Weekly Magazine, April 14, 1866, pp. 226-227.
04/17/1866	Brigadier General Edward D. Townsend to Major General Oliver O. Howard, Washington, D.C., April 17, 1866
04/21/1866	Edmund Cooper to Governor Jonathan Worth, Washington DC, April 21, 1866
05/01/1866	War Department, General Order 26, Washington, DC, May 1, 1866
05/22/1866	Charles F. Jackson and T.W. Gilbreth, Report of an investigation of the cause, origin, and results of the late riots in the city of Memphis, submitted May 22, 1866
06/08/1866	Conclusions, Majority Report of the Joint Committee of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on Reconstruction, June 8, 1866, Washington, D.C.
06/16/1866	Conclusions, Majority Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, U.S. Congress, June 16, 1866
06/28/1866	Resolution of the "Conservative Republicans" in Convention, Des Moines, Iowa, June 28, 1866.
07/18/1866	Resolutions, Democratic Party of Central and Eastern Pennsylvania in Convention, Reading, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1866.
07/23/1866	Edmund Abell to the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 23, 1866.
07/30/1866	John Tompkins Monroe to the People of New Orleans, New Orleans, July 30, 1866.
08/01/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, New Orleans, August 1, 1866.
08/02/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, New Orleans, August 2, 1866.
08/03/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, New Orleans, August 3, 1866.
08/04/1866	Andrew Johnson to Philip H. Sheridan, Washington, DC, August 4, 1866.
08/06/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Andrew Johnson, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 6, 1866.
08/08/1866	Resolutions, Democratic Party of Maryland in Convention, Baltimore, August 8, 1866.
08/08/1866	Resolutions, Republican Party of Illinois in Convention, August 8, 1866, Springfield, Illinois
08/15/1866	Resolutions, the Unconditional Union party of Maryland in Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, August 15, 1866.
08/20/1866	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End in Texas, and Civil Authority existing throughout the whole of the United States, August 20, 1866, Washington, D.C.
08/22/1866	Resolutions, Union League of Philadelphia, August 22, 1866, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
08/30/1866	Resolutions, Republican Party of Michigan in Convention, August 30, 1866, Detroit, Michigan.
09/17/1866	Nathan Bedford Forrest, et al, to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, September 17, 1866, Memphis, Tennessee.
09/17/1866	Oliver O. Howard to Edwin Stanton, Washington, DC, September 17, 1866.
09/18/1866	Gordon Granger, et al, to Nathan Bedford Forrest, et al., September 18, 1866, Cleveland, Ohio.
09/20/1866	John Gray Foster to Ulysses S. Grant, September 20, 1866, Tallahassee, Florida.
10/01/1866	Jonathan Worth, Address to the North Carolina Freedmen's Convention, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 3, 1866
11/09/1866	Address of the Colored Convention of Indiana to the Citizens of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana,
03/02/1867	United States Congress, "An Act regulating the Tenure of certain Civil Offices," March 2, 1867
03/02/1867	United States Congress, "An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States," March 2, 1867.
03/23/1867	"The Southern View of the Reconstruction Bill," Harper's Weekly Magazine, March 23, 1867.
08/17/1867	Daniel Sickles, Confirmation of sentences in the case of the whipping of Phillis Ruffin, Charleston, South Carolina, August 17, 1867,