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Johnson announces that the only route for Reconstruction to be completed is through peace and avoiding re-opening the wounds of war. Johnson continues…

As the controversy over the Jefferson Davis trial continues, white Southerners push for conciliation. The same crowd who wants other former…

White Southerners try to make the claim that the states who attempted to secede did not commit treason, but only tried to separate the nation into two…

Alexander H.H. Stuart delivers the University of Virginia commencement ceremony address, giving the audience his take on the underlying causes of the…

Radicals plot to manipulate the outcome of the Philadelphia National Convention by securing attendance of violent and extreme white Southern…

As the proposed Philadelphia National Convention date approaches, tensions rise over eligibility of former rebels planning to attend. The Radicals,…

The State Central Committee of Virginia plans to send the most prominent and influential men of the state as delegates for the Philadelphia National…

Blacks assemble more frequently in the form of violent parades throughout Richmond. According to Dispatch editors, White Southerners exhibit…

The Freedmen's Bureau is causing the South more frustration than ever before. White Southerners claim that Bureau officers exaggerate the severity of…

At the Philadelphia National Convention, the committee upon meeting compiles a report they justify as agreeable to all political spectrums of the…