SOURCE / archival record
The Troops Removed
About this source
The University of South Carolina Historical Newspapers scan and OCR of the partisan Anderson Intelligencer page; the reproduced correspondence and dated event report are used, not the paper's political verdicts.
CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 5
Where this source is used
On 10 April Hampton and Chamberlain arranged through correspondence for their officers to transfer the executive chamber, records, and papers.
- supports · April 12, 1877, p. 2, reproduced April 10 correspondence
Their private secretaries formally transferred the executive office at noon on 11 April 1877.
- supports · April 12, 1877, p. 2, report following the correspondence
The 11 April boundary dates transfer of the executive office; it does not establish when constitutional rules ceased to exist or when Black political activity ended.
- supports · April 10 correspondence and April 11 office-transfer report
The documented killings, intimidation, disputed returns, federal decisions, and office transfer establish a sequence of mechanisms but do not establish each mechanism's relative causal weight.
- qualifies · April 10 correspondence and April 11 report
Federal troops left the South Carolina State House at noon on 10 April 1877.
- supports · April 12, 1877, p. 2, ‘The Troops Removed’