Reconstruction in Georgia
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings
Ruins of houses, Savannah, Georgia, 1865
ONLINE RESOURCES
New Georgia Encyclopedia. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Relevant articles include:
Black Legislators during Reconstruction, Rufus Bullock, Camilla Massacre, Constitution of 1877, Emancipation, Freedmen's Education during Reconstruction, Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era, Jefferson Franklin Long, Reconstruction Conventions, Reconstruction in Georgia.
VERTICAL FILES
General Information:
Freedman's Bureau, History - 1800s (2 folders), Ku Klux Klan - General (2), Reconstruction.
Biography
Rufus Bullock, Joseph E. Brown, Tunis Campbell, Benjamin Hill (2), Charles Jones Jenkins, Robert Toombs.
CONTEMPORARY SOURCES
Blodgett, Foster. Speech of Hon. Foster Blodgett, Before the Union Club of Augusta, Ga., on Monday Evening Aug. 12, 1867. n.p., 1867.
F291 .B666s
Bullock, Rufus. Condition of Affairs in Georgia. Letter from Governor Bullock, of Georgia, in Reply to the Statement of Hon. Nelson Tift to the Reconstruction Committee of Congress... Washington, 1869.
F291 .U581 1869
Bullock, Rufus B. Have the Reconstruction Acts Been Fully Executed in Georgia. Washington, D.C.: Chronicle Print, 1868.
F291 .B938h
Caldwell, John H. The Georgia Question before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate. Arguments of Hon. J.H. Caldwell and Hon. J.E. Bryant... Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1870.
F291 .C13 1870
Evidence before the Committee on Reconstruction Relative to the Condition of Affairs in Georgia. Washington: United States Congress, House Committee on Reconstruction, 1869.
F291 .T55 1869
Hill, Benjamin H. The Great Speech of Hon. B.H. Hill, Delivered at Atlanta, Ga., July 23, 1868. (Specially Reported for the Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel). Augusta: Daily Chronicle and Sentinel, 1868.
F291 .H5
Hill, Benjamin H. "We Are in Our Fathers' House." Speech of Hon. Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia, on the General Amnesty Bill. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 11, 1876. Washington: Cunningham & Brashears, Printers, 1876.
E668 .H5
Letter from the Secretary of War in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 4th Ultimo, Transmitting Copies of General Terry's Report on Georgia. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1870.
F291 .U5 1870
Letter of the Secretary of War, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of December 21, 1865, Copies of the Records and Proceedings, with the Review of the Same by the Judge Advocate General, of the Military Commissions by Which Were Tried and Convicted E.W. Andrews, of South Carolina; J.M. Brown and C.C. Reese, of Georgia, J.L. McMillan and Neill McGill, of North Carolina. Washington: 1866.
E668 .U8250 1866
Morton, Oliver P. Speech on the Bill for the Admission of Georgia, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 14, 1870. Washington: Chronicle Print., 1870.
F291 .M891s
Pierson, Rev. H.W. A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with "Statements" of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia, and an Account of My Expulsion from Andersonville, Ga., by the Ku-Klux Klan... Washington: Chronicle Print, 1870.
F291 .P624
Report of Major General Meade's Military Operations and Administration of Civil Affairs in the Third Military District and Dep't of the South for the Year 1868, with Accompanying Documents. Atlanta: Assistant Adjutant General's Office, Department of the South, 1868.
E668 .U581
Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia Declaring the Assent of Said State to the Condition Imposed upon Said State by the Act of Congress of June 25, 1868, Proposing to Admit the State of Georgia to Representation in Congress as a State of the United States... Washington, 1870.
F291 .G352r 1870
Special Instructions to Boards of Registration in the State of Georgia. Atlanta: United States Army, Third Military District, 1867.
F291 .U582s
Tift, Nelson. Conditions of Affairs in Georgia. Nelson Tift's Rejoinder to the Letter of Governor Bullock, Relative to the Condition of Affairs in Georgia. Washington: Gov't Print. Off., 1869.
F291 .T552
Tift, Nelson. The Condition of Affairs in Georgia. Statement of Hon. Nelson Tift to the Reconstruction Committee of the House, House of Representatives, Washington, February 18, 1869. n.p., 1869.
F291 .T553
Views of Leading Southern Democrats: Speeches of Wade Hampton, Robert Toombs, Howell Cobb and B.H. Hill. n.p., 1868.
E668 .V671
POST-RECONSTRUCTION ANALYSES
Bhurtel, Shyam Krishna. Alfred Eliab Buck: Carpetbagger in Alabama and Georgia. Ph.D. diss., Auburn University, 1981.
F291 .B924 B50
Bloom, Charles G. The Georgia Election of April, 1868; A Re-Examination of the Politics of Georgia Reconstruction. M.A. thesis, University of Chicago, 1963.
F291 .B655g
Busbee, Westley Floyd. Presidential Reconstruction in Georgia, 1865-1867. Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, 1973.
F291 .B950
Caldwell, John H. Reminiscences of the Reconstruction of Church and State in Georgia. Wilmington, Del.: J.M. Thomas, 1895.
F291 .C311r
Cimbala, Paul A. Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
F291 .C56 1997
Conway, Alan. The Reconstruction of Georgia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966.
F291 .C66
Coulter, E. Merton. Negro Legislators in Georgia during the Reconstruction Period. Athens: Georgia Historical Quarterly, 1968.
LXK23 .C855 N45
Currie-McDaniel, Ruth. Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
F291 .B9 C87 1987
deTreville, John R. Reconstruction in Augusta, Georgia, 1865-1868. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1979.
F294 .A9 D4770
Drago, Edmund L. Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
E185.93 .G4 D7 1982
Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt. Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.
E668 .D83
Duncan, Russell. Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post-Civil War Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
F291 .B93 D86 1994
Duncan, Russell. Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
F291 .C2 D86 1986
Hood, Janice Carol. Brotherly Hate: A Quantitative Study of Southern Reconstruction Congressmen, 1867-1877.Ph.D. diss., Washington State University, 1974.
JK1030 .H6
Inscoe, John C., ed. Georgia in Black and White: Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
E185.93 .G4 G46 1994
Jones, Col. Winfield. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. New York: Tocsin Publishers, 1941.
E668 .J797
Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
F291 .J67
McLeod, Jonathan W. Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies and Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, 1989.
HD8085 .A783 M35 1989
Nathans, Elizabeth Studley. Losing the Peace: Georgia Republicans and Reconstruction, 1865-1871. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
JK2358 .G4
Rable, George C. But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
E668 .R13 1984
Richardson, Emily S. Three Southern Views of Reconciliation, Economic Recovery and Race in teh New South, 1865-1900: As Seen in the Life and Work of Thomas Nelson Page, Joel Chandler Harris and George Washington Cable. Ph.D. diss., American University, 1987.
PS214 .R52 1987a
Roberts, Derrell C. Joseph E. Brown and the Politics of Reconstruction. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
F291 .B732 R62
Rogers, William Warren, Jr. A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2007.
E664 .W612 R64 2007
Stowell, Daniel W. Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
BR535 .S76 1998
Thompson, C. Mildred. Reconstruction in Georgia; Economic, Social, Political, 1865-1872. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1964.
F291 .T46
Thompson, C. Mildred. The Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia in 1865-6: An Instrument of Reconstruction. Atlanta: Georgia Historical Association, 1920.
F291 .T56 1920
United Daughters of the Confederacy. Reconstruction Period in Georgia: 1865-1872. Statesboro: Bulloch Times, 1916.
E668 .U55 1916
Watson, Thomas E. Some Aftermath of the Civil War. Stephens, Toombs, Ben Hill, the Ku Klux Klan, the Colquitt Campaign of 1880, etc.... New York: 1907.
E668 .W342s
Weldon, Ellen. The Atlanta Constitution Views the Ku Klux Klan: 1868-1872. M.A. thesis, University of Missouri, 1964.
F291 .W453
Wetherington, Mark V. Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
E559 .W48 2005
Woolley, Edwin C. The Reconstruction of Georgia. New York: AMS Press, 1970.
F291 .W9 1970
UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Deaton, Stanley Kenneth. Violent Redemption: The Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia 1868-1871. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1988.
LXC15 1988 .D2852
Fitz-Simmons, Theodore Barker. The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, 1868-1871. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1957.
LXC15 1957 .F5
Gamble, Robert S. Athens: The Study of a Georgia Town during Reconstruction, 1865-1872. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1967.
LXC15 1967 .G2
Hodgson, Morton Strahan. Georgia Under Governor Charles Jones Jenkins. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1934.
LXC15 1934 .H6
Johnson, Paul Michael. The Negro in Macon, Georgia, 1865-1871. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1972.
LXC15 1972 .J62
Jones, George Lawrence. The Political Career of Henry Pattillo Farrow, Georgia Republican, 1864-1904. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1966.
LXC15 1966 .J75
Owens, James Leggette. The Negro in Georgia during Reconstruction 1864-1872: A Social History. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1975.
LXC16 1975 .O97
Shadgett, Olive Hall. A History of the Republican Party in Georgia from Reconstruction through 1900. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1962.
LXC16 1962 .S4
ARTICLES AND JOURNALS
Georgia Historical Quarterly F281 .G352
Abbott, Richard H. "Jason Clarke Swayze, Republican Editor in Reconstruction Georgia, 1867-1873." Georgia Historical Quarterly 79 (1995): 337-366.
Cimbala, Paul A. "On the Front Line of Freedom: Freedmen's Bureau Officers and Agents in Reconstruction Georgia, 1865-1868." Georgia Historical Quarterly 76 (1992): 577-611.
Coulter, E. Merton. "Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, Georgia Negro Politician during Reconstruction Times." Georgia Historical Quarterly 51 (1967): 264-306.
Daniell, Elizabeth Otto. "The Ashburn Murder Case in Georgia Reconstruction." Georgia Historical Quarterly 59 (1975): 296-312.
Drago, Edmund L. "Georgia's First Black Voter Registrars during Reconstruction." Georgia Historical Quarterly 78 (1994): 760-793.
Formwalt, Lee W. "The Camilla Massacre of 1868: Racial Violence as Political Propaganda." Georgia Historical Quarterly 71 (1987)
Formwalt, Lee W. "Petitioning Congress for Protection: A Black View of Reconstruction at the Local Level." Georgia Historical Quarterly 73 (1989)
Gorman, Kathleen. "'This Man Felker is a Man of Pretty Good Standing': A Reconstruction Klansman in Walton County." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 897-914.
Hebert, Keith S. "The Bitter Trial of Defeat and Emancipation: Reconstruction in Bartow County, Georgia, 1865-1872." Georgia Historical Quarterly 92 (2008): 65-92.
Holt, Thomas C. "Georgia Carpetbaggers: Politicians without Politics." Georgia Historical Quarterly 72 (1988): 72-86.
Matthews, John M. "Negro Republicans in the Reconstruction of Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 60 (1972): 145-164.
Smith, John David. "'The Work It Did Not Do Because It Could Not': Georgia and the 'New' Freedmen's Bureau Historiography." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (1998): 331-349.
Articles available in print in the Georgia Room
Dickerson, Donna L. "Patronage and the Press: General John Pope and Newspapers in Reconstruction Georgia." Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia & the South 36 (1992): 27-41.
Matthews, John M. "Jefferson Franklin Long: The Public Career of Georgia's First Black Congressman." Phylon 42 (1981): 145-56.
O'Donovan, Susan E. "Philip Joiner, Black Republican Leader." Journal of Southwest Georgia History 4 (1986).
Rogers, William Warren, Jr. "A Reconstruction Referendum in Southwest Georgia: Richard Whiteley Versus Gideon Wright in 1872." Journal of South Georgia History 15 (2000): 1-17.
Wynne, Lewis Nicholas and Milly St. Julien Vappie. "The Camilla Race Riot and the Failure of Reconstruction in Georgia." Journal of South Georgia History 16 (2004): 31-50.
Journals held in the Georgia Room
Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South. 1927-2005. F294 .A8 A881
Formerly Atlanta Historical Society Bulletins; Atlanta Historical Bulletins; and Atlanta Historical Journal.
Journal of South Georgia History. 1999-2004. F286 .J8
Journal of Southwestern Georgia History. 1983-1999. F286 .J8
New South. 1946-1973. E185.5 .N532
Phylon. 1940-1992. E185.5 .P578
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