Virginia did not vote in the 1868 elections for US Congess or President
Source: Library of Congress, Presidential elections, 1880-1892 (Hart-Bolton American history maps, 1919)
Virginia did not vote in the 1868 elections for US Congess or President
Source: Library of Congress, Presidential elections, 1880-1892 (Hart-Bolton American history maps, 1919)
The Union Army occupied portions of Virginia starting in May, 1861. A political bargain after the disputed 1876 election led to withdrawal of the remaining Federal forces from Southern states. However, the period of "reconstruction" in Virginia did not end with the compromise that put Rutherford B. Hays into the White House in March, 1877. Stating in 1861, the possibility of creating a multi-racial society in Virginia flickered, briefly thrived, and then disappeared with the adoption of a new state constitution in 1902.
The first stage in the failed effort to transform society in Virginia began with the military occupation of Alexandria on May 24, 1861.
Source: Chicago Humanities Festival, Eric Foner: Reconstruction and the Constitution
whites in Southern states maneuvered after the Civil War to marginalize the political power of the large percentage of black men with a legal right to vote
Source: Library of Congress, Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870 ...
Virginia voted for the Republican candidate for President, Ulysses S. Grant, in 1872
Source: Library of Congress, Presidential elections, 1880-1892 (Hart-Bolton American history maps, 1919)