I would say it's a matter of attitude.  Virginia was not as devastated as 
some other states.  Military rule did not end until 1872 in Alabama for 
instance.  But the southern mind never forgot the yankees.  Military rule in 
other states was not pleasant and a yankee census taker was not welcome .. 
simply tolerated. ... and that IS a fact. Did the Confederate Virginians 
have a different view of the world?  Virginia in view of her population mix 
of Yankee and Confederate might have been more subdued at the end of the 
war.  Regarding the 1870 Census taker ... was a yankee plain and simple.
Hannah Powell
Hannah Powell

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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] 1860 and 1870 Census


Precision is important when characterizing things, especially things
that the Feds did during the decades before and after the Civil War.

In the first place, Virginia was not under military rule when the census
of 1870 was taken. Congressional, or as it is sometimes called military,
reconstruction ended in Virginia in January 1870.

In the second place, federal government employees always conducted the
census, so what, if anything, does it matter whether a former
Confederate state still had military rule when the census of 1870 was
taken?

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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