By a series of orders issued during the same month (August) General Hancock was substituted for General Sheridan in the command of the
Changes among the
commanders of the
military districts.
CHAPTER VIII
THE EXECUTION OF THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS
[The Attempt to Prevent the Execution of the Reconstruction Acts in Mississippi and Georgia—The Case of Mississippi vs. Johnson]—[The Case of Georgia vs. Stanton]—[The Operations of the Commanders—The Registration]—[The Numbers Registered]—[The Change in the Electorate in the South]—[The Elections—Efforts of the Commanders to Get the Vote Out]—[The Result of the Elections]—[The Character of the Convention Delegates Chosen]—[The Work of the Conventions]—[The Vote upon Ratification—Fraudulent Voting and Unlawful Voting—The Recall of Pope and the Appointment of Meade in His Stead]—[Rejection of the Constitution in Alabama]—[The Statute of Congress Changing the Proportion of Votes to Registration in the Ratification of a Constitution]—[Criticism of the Statute]—[Ratification in Arkansas]—[Ratification in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana]—[Second Attempt in Georgia to Obstruct Reconstruction]—[Rejection of the Constitution in Mississippi].
Although the Supreme Court of the United States had said, in the case of Kendall vs. the United States, in 1838, that so far as the
The attempt to prevent
the execution of the
Reconstruction Acts in
Mississippi and Georgia.