[456] Outside the protection of either government, its helpless and impoverished people were the prey of strolling bands of deserters and robbers. General Wofford went to work vigorously. He called in and organized over 7,000 men, large numbers of them deserters and stragglers; obtained corn and distributed it among the starving people in his own lines, and in a personal conference with General Judah, the Federal commander in North Georgia, obtained that officer's consent to distribute food to the starving people within his lines. At the close of the war General Wofford was elected to Congress. Though refused his seat he presented to Judge Kelly of Pennsylvania the destitute condition of the people of this section of Georgia, and through that gentleman's influence assistance was rendered by the government. He was one of the Greeley electors in the campaign of 1872, and on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket of 1876, and was a member of the Georgia constitutional convention of 1877. During the last part of his life he was a planter near Cassville, Ga.
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[456] Outside the protection of either government, its helpless and impoverished people were the prey of strolling bands of deserters and robbers. General Wofford went to work vigorously. He called in and organized over 7,000 men, large numbers of them deserters and stragglers; obtained corn and distributed it among the starving people in his own lines, and in a personal conference with General Judah, the Federal commander in North Georgia, obtained that officer's consent to distribute food to the starving people within his lines. At the close of the war General Wofford was elected to Congress. Though refused his seat he presented to Judge Kelly of Pennsylvania the destitute condition of the people of this section of Georgia, and through that gentleman's influence assistance was rendered by the government. He was one of the Greeley electors in the campaign of 1872, and on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket of 1876, and was a member of the Georgia constitutional convention of 1877. During the last part of his life he was a planter near Cassville, Ga.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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