Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction

by Charles H. McCarthy

[474]. McClure’s Magazine, Dec., 1899, p. 174.

[475]. The Provisional appointments were made in the following order: June 13, 1865, William L. Sharkey, Mississippi; June 17, James Johnson, Georgia, and Andrew J. Hamilton, Texas; June 21, Lewis E. Parsons, Alabama; June 30, Benjamin F. Perry, South Carolina; July 13, William Marvin, Florida.

[476]. Ann. Cycl., 1865, p. 580.

[477]. Ann. Cycl., 1865, p. 581.

[478]. Ann. Cycl., 1865, p. 583.

[479]. Constitution of the United States, by Francis N. Thorpe, p. 49.

[480]. See Why The Solid South? pp. 9–10, for an ingenious explanation of the unanimity and promptness with which the Presidential policy of reconstruction was accepted by the South.

[481]. Laws of Mississippi, pp. 86–88.

[482]. Ibid., pp. 89–90.

[483]. Laws of Mississippi, 1865, pp. 82–86.