Following Governor Johnson’s directive (and President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan), elections were held for delegates to a constitutional convention that met in late October 1865 in the capital at Milledgeville. president Andrew Johnson appointed as provisional governor of Georgia James Johnson, a Columbus Unionist who had “sat out” the war.
The soldiers’ numbers during the period from 1865 to 1871 fluctuated greatly, from around 9,000 (June 1865) to more than 15,000 (September 1865), but for most of the period their numbers totaled less than 1,000. Army provided a measure of stability, as well as much-needed food rations in some portions of the state. For the state’s whites and Blacks, the U.S. In late June 1865 the Military Department of Georgia was established. The state’s Black population, principally more than 460,000 newly freedpeople, confronted a new world with hope and uncertainty.Ĭourtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Politically rudderless and economically destitute, Georgia faced the future with a white population, which had numbered more than 590,000 in 1860, depleted by some 40,000 Georgians who had been killed or permanently dispersed by the conflict. After attempting to convene the Georgia General Assembly, however, he was arrested and briefly imprisoned in the District of Columbia.īrown left behind a war-ravaged state, devoid of civil order and fast approaching chaos. Brown, surrendered to Union authorities and was paroled. Aftermath of the Civil WarĪs the Civil War ended in early May 1865, Georgia’s Confederate governor, Joseph E. Though relatively brief, Reconstruction transformed the state politically, socially, and economically. As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civil War (1861-65) ended, until 1871, when Republican government and military occupation in the state ended.
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