 In January 1868, after Georgia's first elected governor after the end of the war, Charles Jenkins, refused to authorize state funds for the racially integrated state constitutional convention, his government was dissolved by Pope's successor General George Meade and replaced by a military governor.This coup galvanized white resistance to the Reconstruction, fueling the growth of the Ku Klux Klan.Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest visited Atlanta several times in early 1868 to help set up the organization.