Josiah Sherman was a Georgia state senator during the Reconstruction era. He was from

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. He sat in the

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from 1869 to 1870. Emma Spaulding Bryant (wife of

John Emory Bryant John Emory Bryant (October 13, 1836 – February 27, 1900) served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and the Freedmens Bureau in Georgia during the Reconstruction Era. He also worked as a newspaper editor, Republican Party organizer, m ...

) boarded with Sherman and his wife on the outskirts of Atlanta. Sherman testified to a congressional subcommittee on violence, intimidation and abuse that Republicans and Republican Party organizers experienced in Georgia.

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