Holding these pronounced views, aggressively loyal in every thought and action, General Pope was naturally in antagonism with the policy of the President.

Towards the close of the year he was relieved of his command and General Meade ordered to take his place.
General Sickles, of the District of North Carolina and South Carolina, was relieved of his command early in September (1867), and General E.R.

S.Canby appointed as his successor.

General Sickles had been very energetic in the administration of affairs in his department, and had shown remarkable aptitude and efficiency in the discharge of his peculiar duties,--exhibiting in his administration the very qualities most likely to prove offensive to the President.

He had perhaps the most difficult command of any of the generals on duty in the South, as the State of South Carolina had from the beginning of the Rebellion presented certain phases of disobedience to Federal authority peculiar to her population and naturally arising from her antecedent history.
General Sickles had some trouble with Attorney-General Stanbery, and asked for a court of inquiry, that he might vindicate himself from the accusations of that official.
General Schofield and General Ord alone of the original commanders in the Southern military districts were left to carry through the work of Reconstruction.