By May 1865 the Daily Intelligencer of Atlanta reported that 10,000 Union troops had occupied Eufaula. In the immediate aftermath of the occupation there was a food riot and an "attempt to illegally distribute the public stores". By the end of May Eufaula was sufficiently pacified that a special agent of the United States Post Office was able to deliver mail from Providence, Rhode Island, to the town via Macon, Georgia, without need for any of the twenty-five armed guards he had brought with him to defend him with violence.
By May 1865 the Daily Intelligencer of Atlanta reported that 10000 Union troops had occupied Eufaula In the immediate aftermath of the occupation there was a food riot and an "attempt to illegally distribute the public stores" By the end of May Eufaula was sufficiently pacified that a special agent of the United States Post Office was able to deliver mail from Providence Rhode Island to the town via Macon Georgia without need for any of the twenty-five armed guards he had brought with him to defend him with violence