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Reconstruction Era | From the Ashes of War | 1
American History Tellers
The South's First Black Coat
In October 1865 General Howard traveled to South Carolina as a distal island He met with 2,000 freed people in the local church and reluctantly announced that their land was being returned to his former owners. After making his announcement Howard pledged to keep fighting for them when Congress reconvened in December. In the meantime fall elections propelled hundreds of former Confederates to state and federal office. With president johnson's pardons in hand many ex-confederate generals, colonels, congressmen and cabinet officers ran for and won election to the u.s House and senate Georgia voters even elected the former Confederate vice president Alexander Stevens to the senate. Soon the republican dominated congress would finally come back into
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