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to Henry Knox Craig

He comments on Andrew Johnson's pending impeachment trial Says, "It seems to me that it is a predetermination to get rid of Mr. Johnson…and the prospect that the Reconstruction Acts may be declared unconstitutional in the decision on the McCardle...

GLC02382.038

to unknown

Expresses his belief that reconstruction would not end if a short term Democrat is elected to the presidency, but that it would be disastrous for the Freedmen. Rutherford B. Hayes served as President 1877-1881.

GLC08201

"Radical Members of the So. Ca. Legislature"

One cabinet card entitled, "Radical Members of the So. Ca. Legislature," dated 1876. Features portraits of 63 members of the South Carolina Legislature during Reconstruction which includes elected African Americans. On the reverse side are the names...

GLC09827

To: Major General E.O.C. Ord

Letter to Ord advising Ord on his difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] command in Arkansas and Misssissippi: "...your new command...will be excedingly vexatious, more especially, as now you have in addition to military duties civil...

GLC08012.07

To: Major General E.O.C. Ord

Letter to Ord discussing his post-war [Reconstruction] duties, the size and deployment of the post-war army: "Grant is fully aware of the tendencies of Bureaucracy and will on his ownquiet way work at the Solution. I think Congress will lean to him...

GLC08012.03