Josiah Sherman Explained

Josiah Sherman was a Georgia state senator during the Reconstruction era. He was from Vermont.^[1] He sat in the 80th Georgia General Assembly from 1869 to 1870. Emma Spaulding Bryant (wife of John Emory Bryant) boarded with Sherman and his wife on the outskirts of Atlanta.^[1]

Sherman testified to a congressional subcommittee on violence, intimidation and abuse that Republicans and Republican Party organizers experienced in Georgia.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Bryant, Emma Frances Spaulding. Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist : Letters and Diaries, 1860-1900. 9780823222735. 2004 . Google Books.
2. Web site: Report ... Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872: Georgia . United States Congress Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. 21 December 1872. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.