Editing Robert Toombs (section)

==Final years==
His wife returned to Georgia in late 1866 following the death of their last surviving child, Sallie Toombs DuBose, in Washington County, Georgia. She went to help their widowed son-in-law care for several small children. Toombs missed his wife and returned to Georgia in 1867, but refused to request a pardon from the president. He never regained his right to vote nor hold political office during the Reconstruction era.<ref name="civilwarwomen">{{Cite web|url=https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/julia-dubose-toombs/|title = Julia Dubose Toombs|date = April 4, 2016}}</ref>

However, Toombs resumed his lucrative law practice, in connection with his son-in-law [[Dudley M. DuBose]]. The latter was elected in 1870 as a Democratic U.S. Representative and served one term. Toombs gradually resumed political power in Georgia. He funded and dominated the Georgia constitutional convention of 1877, in the year that federal troops were withdrawn from the South.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Garrison|first1=Ellen|title=Reactionaries or Reformers? Membership and Leadership of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877|journal=Georgia Historical Quarterly|date=Winter 2006|volume=90|issue=4|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=23695961&site=eds-live&scope=site|access-date=October 26, 2016}}</ref> He demonstrated the political skill and temperament that earlier had earned him a reputation as one of Georgia's most effective leaders. He gained a populist reputation for attacks on railroads and state investment in them.