The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901
CHAPTER III
CONGRESSIONAL DELIBERATIONS AND ACTIONS CONCERNING THE JOHNSON GOVERNMENTS, ENDING IN THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS OF 1867
When Congress met on December 4, 1865, President Johnson informed it of the measures he had taken for restoring the southern states and of the conditions he had required as necessary to restoration. He emphasized the requirement that the Thirteenth Amendment be ratified (which, as stated in