Letters Relating to the Efforts to Impeach Governor Harrison Reed During the Reconstruction Era

Executive Office
Tallahassee, July 2, 1868

Colonel John T. Sprague
Commanding District of Florida
Colonel

I have the honor to inform
you that the state government provide[d] under the new Con-
stitution [sic] for the State of Florida, in accordance with the
Reconstruction Laws of congress, has been duly inagu-
rated & all the conditions precedent to the admission
of the State into the federal Union have been com-
plied with & our Representatives admitted to Congress.
with high respect I am, Colonel
Your obt servt
Harrison Reed
Governor