A violent event in Camilla, Georgia, on September 19, 1868, garnered national attention and affected the presidential election of 1868. What happened in Camilla? In this lesson, students source, contextualize, and corroborate competing accounts of what happened at the infamous event in Georgia during Reconstruction.
Image: Headline from The Daily Evening Telegraph, a Philadelphia newspaper, on October 9, 1868. From the Library of Congress.