Josiah Sherman

Josiah Sherman was a Georgia State Senator during the Reconstruction era. He was from Vermont.[1] He served in the 80th Georgia General Assembly. Emma Spaulding Bryant (wife of John Emory Bryant) boarded with Sherman and his wife on the outskirts of Atlanta.[1]

Sherman testified to a subcommittee on violence, intimidation, and abuse that Republicans and Republican Party organizers experienced in Georgia.[2]

References

1. Bryant, Emma Frances Spaulding (2004). Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist : Letters and Diaries, 1860-1900. ISBN 9780823222735.
2. States, United States Congress Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary (21 December 1872). "Report ... Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872: Georgia". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.