mar 2, 1867 - Vetoes First Reconstruction Act (14 Stat 428). Insists Southerners are “united in the effort to reorganize their society...as rapidly and as completely as their circumstances will permit.” Congress overrides the veto, dividing the South, except for Tennessee, into five military districts for governance
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