The reorganization of the Southern states continues. Today U.S. President Andrew Johnson appoints James Johnson (1811-1891) as provisional governor of Georgia. Johnson remains in office for most of the rest of the year, guiding the state through the initial stages of repealing Georgia’s Ordinance of Secession and formally abolishing slavery. On this same day, Virginian…
Following a meeting of Richmond-area black citizens at the First African Baptist Church of Richmond on June 10, five representatives from that meeting visit with U.S. President Andrew Johnson this day to voice their complaints of how Richmond’s white citizens are yet denying freedoms to blacks. Making matters worse, Federal military authorities were collaborating in…
Confederate soldiers who survived the war are settling back into home life. Many of those who are Baptists return to their home churches this month. In Georgia, the Harmony Primitive Baptist Church in Pike County and the Houston Factory Baptist Church of Houston County each extend “the right hand of fellowship” to returning soldier members.…