The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction

by Charles E. Chadsey

[1] Scott, Reconstruction during the Civil War, 245 ff.

[2] House Journal, 1st Session, 37th Congress, pp. 123-5.

[3] Alexander H. Stephens, in The War between the States, uses this fact as a basis for the charge that Johnson was inconsistent in refusing to ratify the Sherman-Johnston Convention.

[4] House Journal, 2d Session, 37th Congress, p. 33.

[5] Senate Journal, 2d Session, 37th Congress, pp. 202-4.

[6] House Journal, 37th Congress, 3d Session, p. 43. Introduced December 5, 1862, by C. L. Vallandigham, whose subsequent career is well known. See Cox Three Decades of Federal Legislation, pp. 80-85.

[7] The italics are mine.

[8] House Journal, 1st Session, 38th Congress, p. 48.

[9] Ibid., pp. 65-6.

[10] See Cox, Three Decades of Federal Legislation, 123.