The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 was an assembly of delegates elected by the voters to establish the fundamental law of Virginia following the American Civil War and the Fourteenth Amend
John Curtiss Underwood 1868 Presiding officer
Gen. John M. Schofield Commander, Military District One (Virginia)
Christopher Y. Thomas Republican delegate from Henry County
Capitol at Richmond VA, where Convention of 1868 met
Committee of Nine
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The Committee of Nine was a group of conservative political leaders in Virginia, led by Alexander H. H. Stuart, following the American Civil War, when Virginia was required to adopt a new Constitution
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868
…Convention delegates. The statewide majority of white ex-Confederates immediately organized Virginia's Conservative Party by meeting and forming the Committee of Nine shortly after the convention began meeting in December 1867. They incorporated the moderate former Unionists to seek white-only control of the state…
A narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to re-establish peaceful relations between the northern and southern states, and the subsequent efforts of the "Committee of Nine," in 1869, to secure the restoration of Virginia to the Union.
Letter Announcing Virginia's Readmission to the United States, 1870