Footnotes:
[1] Alex. Stephens, The War Between the States, vol. ii, p. 623; W. T. Sherman, Memoirs, vol. ii, pp. 346-362.
[2] M. C. U., May 9, 1865.
[3] See the account of the gigantic relief operations of the federal army, A. A. C., 1865, p. 392.
[4] M. C. U., May 9, 1865.
[5] Letter from Joseph E. Brown to Andrew Johnson, dated May 20, 1865, in the Department of War, Washington. Brown was arrested on May 10. On May 8, upon surrendering the state troops to the federal general Wilson, he had been paroled. (The parole paper is in the above mentioned archives.) Hence the arrest was a violation of his parole. When Wilson entered into the parole engagement he had not been informed how his superiors would regard the summoning of the legislature. Immediately afterward he probably received orders from the central authorities to arrest Brown. He preferred obeying orders to observing his engagement.
[6] G. O. D. S., 1865, no. 63.
[7] See G. O. D. S., 1865, passim. Also Savannah Republican, May 1, 2, 3, etc., 1865.
[8] Savannah Republican, July 4, 1865. See also James Johnson’s proclamation of July 13, 1865, M. F. U. of same date.
[9] M. F. U., July 25, 1865.