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Reconstruction

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by Brooks D. Simpson


  Enforcement Bill (later Act), 366, 400–418, 623

  English immigrants, 484

  Equality, 1, 61–64, 66, 87, 117, 163, 216, 308, 320, 487; of rights before the law, 43, 104, 133–34, 169, 172, 180, 225–26, 229, 231–34, 238–39, 266, 272, 291, 293, 295, 297, 310, 315, 317, 322, 343, 355, 365, 372–73, 375, 380, 414, 426, 428–29, 447–48, 459, 461, 464–67, 472–73, 479, 501, 509, 535–36, 559–61, 575–77, 581–84, 586–87, 607; social, 311, 441, 486, 508, 553–56, 585

  Essex Junto, 64

  Euclid, 485

  Evarts, William M., 345

  Evins, John H., 661

  Ex parte Milligan, 265, 301–2, 416–18

  F

  Faneuil Hall (Boston), 44, 46, 63–64, 68–69, 429

  Farnsworth, John F., 395–96, 398–99

  Farragut, David G., 288, 298

  Fayette County, Tenn., 127

  Federal citizenship, 214, 300, 466

  Federalism, 1, 55, 65, 199, 203

  Federalist, The, 374, 409

  Federalist Party, 269

  Fenians, 273, 281

  Ferguson, Champ, 265

  Fessenden, William Pitt, 346–48

  Feudalism, 102–3

  Fifteenth Amendment, 364, 365, 371, 380, 383–84, 389, 433–34, 458, 462–65, 472, 496, 500, 507, 521, 523, 541, 582, 634

  Finch, Mr. (of Haralson County), 421–22

  Five Forks, battle of, 529

  Flat Rock, N.C., 87

  Fletcher, Thomas C., 279

  Florida, 63–64, 165, 169, 522, 648; mob violence in, 518; political situation in, 446–47, 634–35, 638, 641, 656

  Food rations, 184

  Forney, John W., 204, 259, 289

  Forrest, Nathan B., 355

  Fort Donelson, 475

  Fort Griswold, 456

  Fort Monroe, 111

  Fort Pillow, 98, 270, 481, 537

  Fort Pulaski, 111

  Fort Sumter, 325, 329, 397, 443, 472, 641

  Fort Wagner, 24, 98

  Foster, Lafayette S., 259

  Fourteenth Amendment, 225–26, 235–41, 258–59, 291–92, 294, 308, 313–15, 326, 379, 397, 433–34, 458, 460–69, 472, 492–93, 496, 500, 507, 523, 582, 584, 634

  Fowler, Joseph S., 346, 348

  France, 8, 320, 354; constitution of, 458; incursion in Mexico, 61, 70, 251; under Napoléon III, 69, 410; recognition of Confederacy, 69; women’s rights in, 357

  Franco-Prussian War, 410

  Freedman, The, 165–66

  Freedmen’s Bureau, 3–4, 110, 125, 160–61, 163, 166, 181–97, 221, 247, 252, 278–81, 319

  Freedmen’s Bureau Act (1865), 182, 194

  Freedmen’s Bureau Bill (1866), 3–4, 181, 188–97, 294, 319

  Freedom, 1–3, 5–6, 9, 12, 17, 24, 27–28, 35–36, 39–40, 47–48, 71–73, 75, 84–85, 87, 102–3, 107, 118–19, 125, 132, 134, 141, 150–51, 154, 163, 169, 171–72, 179–80, 183, 191–92, 210, 215, 221, 224, 227, 231, 233, 239, 269, 286–87, 293, 303, 317, 322, 325, 353, 355, 401, 405–6, 411, 426, 429, 448, 462–64, 526, 536, 581, 607, 646, 660. See also Abolition of slavery; Emancipation of slaves

  Freedom of assembly, 509

  Freedom of speech, 139–40, 243, 272, 317, 354, 509, 517, 606, 658

  Freedom of the press, 243, 317, 354, 509, 517

  Free labor, 104, 153, 156–57, 606

  Freeman, Jordan, 456

  Free persons of color, 111

  Free trade, 649

  French immigrants, 484

  French Revolution, 410

  Frothingham, Octavius B., 372

  Fugitive Slave Law, 237, 536

  Fugitive slaves, 9, 354, 375

  Fullerton, Joseph S.: letter to Andrew Johnson, 181–87

  G

  Galveston, Texas, 518

  Garfield, James A., 366, 574, 579; speech in Congress on Civil Rights Bill, 586–88; speech in Congress on Enforcement Bill, 409–18

  Garland, Augustus H., 522

  Garrard County, Ky., 509

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 485; letters to Boston Journal, 509–14, 535–39

  George III, 231, 320

  Georgia, 79, 81, 97, 250, 354, 365, 391, 439, 471, 500, 511, 522; freedmen in, 141, 147–52, 154, 165–66, 419–24, 621; Ku Klux Klan in, 423; mob violence in, 518; political situation in, 138–40, 144, 146–47, 632–33, 638; social situation in, 140–45, 148; unrest in, 531–32

  German immigrants, 9, 484, 650

  Gettysburg, Pa., 163

  Gibson County, Tenn., 509

  Giddings, Joshua R., 499

  Given, Oscar, 450

  Gladstone, William E., 504

  Gold standard, 441, 570

  Gordon, John B., 637, 650

  Gorham, George C., 364

  Granby, Marquess of (John Manners), 352

  Grant, Ulysses S., 45, 85, 381, 388, 391, 396, 412, 414, 418, 445–47, 475–78, 506, 514, 519, 525, 527–30, 535, 537–39, 593–95, 624, 632, 655–57, 659; annual message to Congress (1874), 520–24; conversation with Abram Hewitt, 636–41; election of (1868), 227–28, 322, 356, 365, 579; election of (1872), 366–67, 432–34; First Inaugural Address, 369–71; interview with New York Times, 249–51; letter to Andrew Johnson, 158–61; letter to Daniel Chamberlain, 619–20; letter to Edwards Pierrepont, 591–92; message to Congress on Fifteenth Amendment, 383–84; message to Congress on Louisiana, 540–52; Second Inaugural Address, 440–43; as U.S. Army general, 14, 226, 246, 249–51, 264, 267, 270, 288, 298, 330–31, 339–41, 355, 636

  Grant Parish, La., 449, 452, 517

  Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de, 355

  Greece, ancient, 303–4, 409, 645

  Greeley, Horace, 109, 346, 366, 432–34, 506, 607–8; exchange with Robert Brown Elliott on amnesty, 394–99; reply to committee of Liberal Republican Convention, 425–27

  Green, John, 449

  Greene, Nathanael, 456

  Greensboro, N.C., 385

  Greenville, N.C., 336

  Greenville & Columbia Railroad, 392

  Grimes, James W., 346, 348

  Groesbeck, William S., 345

  Grotius, Hugo, 101

  Groton, Conn., 456

  Guilford, N.C., 315–17

  Gypsies, 214

  H

  Habeas corpus, writ of, 366, 381, 414–16, 418

  Habeas Corpus Act (Britain, 1679), 415

  Hackleman, Pleasant A., 267

  Hadnot, John, and sons, 449–50, 452, 544

  Haffa, William P., 605

  Haiti, 62, 441, 507, 536

  Halleck, Henry W., 97, 101

  Hallowell, Edward N., 244

  Hamburg, S.C., 619–20, 622, 624, 630

  Hamilcar, 485

  Hamilton, Alexander, 374, 456, 458–59

  Hamilton, Andrew J., 292; letter to Andrew Johnson, 133–37

  Hamilton, Jones, 82

  Hampton, Wade, 145, 355, 637, 645–46, 650, 660

  Hancock, Winfield S., 331

  Hancock County, Ga., 632

  Hannibal, 485

  Hanno, 485

  Haptonstall, Abram C., 76

  Haralson County, Ga., 419–24

  Hardesty, Mr. (Clinton massacre participant), 604

  Harper, Fenton, 242

  Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins: speech at National Women’s Rights Convention, 242–45

  Harper’s Weekly, 231–34, 272–75, 318–20, 515–18

  Harris, John T., 471, 489

  Harris, Mr. (Colfax massacre participant), 544

  Harris, P. H., 544

  Hartwell, Alfred S., 35, 38

  Harvard University, 101

  Hastings, Alfred, 604

  Hastings, Warren, 329

  Hatch, John P., 35, 38

  Hatcher, Rachel, 254

  Hautefeuille, Laurent-Basile, 97

  Hawley, Joseph R., 28

  Hayden, Lewis: Caste Among Masons, 162–64

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 655; election of, 447, 622–25, 633–35, 638, 642–44, 656; diary of, 634–35

  Hayes, W
ebb Cook, 635

  Hayne, Robert Y., 436

  Henderson, John B., 346, 348

  Hendricks, Thomas A., 638–39

  Herron, Andrew, 274

  Hewitt, Abram: memorandum of conversation with Ulysses S. Grant, 636–41

  Hickman, Denis, 450–51, 454

  Hickman, James, 450–51

  Hickman, Tom, 450–51

  Hickman, William, 450–51

  Hill, Benjamin H., 650

  Hill, Robert A., 563

  Hillman, Walter, 600, 602

  Hilton Head Island, S.C., 31

  Hinds County, Miss., 589–90, 597–605

  Hinds County Gazette, 589–90

  Hiscock, L. Harris, 361

  Holden, William W., 292; letter to Ulysses S. Grant, 381–82

  Holt, Joseph, 415

  Hooper, Samuel, 56

  Hopkins, Marcus S.: letter to James Johnson, 167–68

  Hopkins, Mr. (Colfax massacre participant), 454

  Horsey, Stephen, 265

  Hotels, discrimination in, 466, 562–63

  Houghton, L. S., 81–82

  House of Representatives, U.S., 95, 188, 194–95, 203, 206, 208, 214, 224, 226, 342, 383; Democratic control regained, 445; and disputed election of 1876, 636–42, 644; and Fifteenth Amendment, 364; and Fourteenth Amendment, 258–59; impeachment of President Johnson, 227, 344–48; testimony on Memphis riot, 253–57; testimony on murder of John Walthall, 419–24. See also Congress, U.S.

  Houston, John P., 76, 85

  Howard, Jacob M., 326

  Howard, Oliver O., 125, 160, 251, 319; correspondence with Charles C. Soule, 35–43

  Howe, Julia Ward, 373

  Howell, Dr. (of Somerville), 127

  Hudson County, N.J., 360–61

  Human rights, 57–58, 139, 142, 148–50, 239–40, 295, 458–59, 555, 580, 586, 594, 630, 660

  Humphreys, Andrew, 265

  Hunter, Robert M. T., 111

  I

  Illinois, 142, 169, 447, 628, 631, 645

  Immigrants, 9–10, 39, 104, 131, 140, 157, 246, 281, 432, 484, 517, 617, 645, 648, 650, 656

  Impartial suffrage, 426, 433

  Impeachment, 227, 281, 318–20, 329–42, 344–49

  Indentures of apprenticeship, 90–91

  Independent, The, 356

  India, 572

  Indiana, 225, 532, 628, 650; political situation in, 260–69

  Indianapolis, Ind., 260, 289, 626

  Indianapolis Herald, 261

  Indians, 63, 137, 214, 258, 354, 371, 400, 429, 442, 536, 602, 616

  Infanticide, 360–61

  Inferiority of blacks, charge of, 4, 8–10, 88–89, 122–23, 583

  Ingersoll, Robert G.: speech at Indianapolis, 626–31

  Inquisition, 355

  Insurrections, by freedmen, 123, 127–28

  Iowa, 109, 656

  Ireland, 10, 232, 273, 359, 636

  Irish immigrants, 9–10, 104, 246, 281, 432, 484, 571, 648, 650

  Irwin, Bill, 449–50, 452, 454

  Italy, 8, 623

  Iuka Herald, 511–12

  J

  Jackson, Andrew, 11, 31, 199, 457

  Jackson, Ben, 604

  Jackson, Miss., 77–78, 80, 592–93, 597, 603

  Jackson, Sam, 604

  Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall), 261, 267

  Jackson Clarion, 557–58

  Jacobs, Harriet: letters to The Freedman, 165–66

  James, Thomas, 34

  James River, 249

  Jefferson, Thomas, 47, 67, 286, 372, 436, 487

  Jerusalem, 502

  Jesus, 268, 278–79, 284

  Jews, 104, 494, 502

  Johnson, Andrew, 1–4, 24–25, 28, 31–34, 52–53, 56, 59, 61, 76, 78, 83, 87, 103, 105–6, 108, 110–11, 122–26, 133, 138–39, 145, 158, 163, 181, 225–27, 232, 234, 238, 243, 273–75, 289–90, 292, 297–99, 302, 304, 308, 350, 356, 369, 407, 462, 478, 636, 656; annual message to Congress (1866), 314; annual message to Congress (1867), 333, 340; exchange with Frederick Douglass, 169–80; as governor of Tennessee, 26, 206, 240; impeachment of, 318–20, 329–42, 344–49; interview with George L. Stearns, 113–16; interview with Pennsylvania delegation, 21–23; as member of U.S. Congress, 113, 115, 206; reply to black ministers, 26–27; speech at St. Louis, 276–87; speech to U.S. 1st Colored Infantry, 117–21; speech on Washington’s Birthday, 198–213; as U.S. vice president, 206–7, 305, 334–35; veto of Civil Rights Bill, 214–24; veto of Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, 188–197

  Johnson, James, 167

  Johnson, R. M., 34

  Johnson, Samuel, 231

  Johnson, Thomas, 396–97

  Johnston, Amos R., 78

  Johnston, Joseph E., 112, 250, 323, 500

  Jones County, N.C., 385

  Julian, George W., 499

  Juries, and freedmen, 2, 132, 315, 317, 343, 646

  Justice, 12–13, 22, 31, 57, 72, 98, 111, 131–32, 139, 141, 154, 157, 162, 170, 174, 180, 236, 239–40, 272, 299, 303, 310–11, 316, 325, 328

  Justice Department, U.S., 544, 593

  K

  Kansas, 237, 354, 359–60, 569, 656

  Kasson, John A., 638

  Kearney, Philip, 267

  Kellogg, William P., 516, 520, 527, 532, 540–45, 548–51, 624

  Kent, James, 216, 461

  Kentucky, 47, 457, 467, 471, 515, 522, 555, 568, 587, 649; constitution, 497; freedmen in, 496–97, 33–34, 446; mob violence in, 509, 512–13, 518

  Key, Philip Barton, 361

  Keyes, Miss (of Haralson County), 422

  Kimmel, Francis M., 289

  King, Frank, 255

  Knights of the White Camellia, 516–17

  Know Nothing Party, 281

  Ku Klux Klan, 225, 366, 381–82, 385–89, 394–98, 403, 407, 412, 423, 432, 496, 506, 516–18, 538, 550, 610, 616, 632

  L

  Labor, 6, 27, 62–63, 159, 303, 335, 442, 571; agricultural, 35–43, 88–89, 131, 153–54, 165–66, 462, 486; and capital, 38, 89, 148, 185, 193, 223, 355, 517, 643–44; contracts for, 4, 35–36, 38, 43, 88–89, 165–66, 183; free, 104, 153, 156–57, 606; of freedmen, 2–3, 13, 35–43, 75, 84, 88–90, 104, 119, 122, 128, 131, 150–54, 156–57, 160, 165–66, 178, 180, 183, 185, 193–94, 316–17, 355, 377–78, 462, 486, 519, 533; indentures of apprenticeship, 90–91; wages for, 38, 40, 75, 84, 122, 128, 151, 165–66, 194

  Lacour, Gus, 454

  Lacour, Oscar, 454

  Lamar, Lucius Q. C., 563, 565, 650, 655

  Lambert, C. H., 167–68

  Lancaster, Pa., 92, 288

  Land confiscation, 2, 93, 97–99, 103–4, 106, 111, 125, 193, 225, 232, 309, 438

  Landownership, 4, 30–31, 37, 48–50, 99, 104, 109, 111, 115, 125–28, 132, 186, 225, 239–40, 316

  Laurens County, S.C., 391, 637–38

  Law of nations, 50, 93, 100, 102, 305, 308

  Lawrence, Eugene: letter to Harper’s Weekly, 515–18

  Lee, Robert E., 112, 237, 250, 264, 267, 313, 323, 356, 655

  Legislature, Georgia, 365, 500

  Legislature, Indiana, 261–63

  Legislature, Louisiana, 17, 445, 460, 527–28, 539, 547–48

  Legislature, Mississippi, 78–79, 593–94

  Legislature, North Carolina, 28–29, 316, 385

  Legislature, South Carolina, 93, 131, 403, 435–39, 659–60

  Legislature, Tennessee, 205–6, 289

  Legislature, Virginia, 561

  Legislatures, state, 218, 463, 493, 528–30, 534. See also individual state legislatures

  Lemoine, Denis, 450–51, 454

  Lemoine, Prudhomme, 450–51, 454, 455

  Lenoir County, N.C., 382

  Lewis, Mr. (of Colfax), 455

  Lewiston Falls Journal, 249

  Liberal Republicans, 366, 425–27, 432–34

  Lieber, Francis, 458

  Lincoln, Abraham, 19, 24, 29, 66–67, 72, 104–5, 170, 207–8, 212, 227, 232, 268, 305, 369, 407, 535, 537, 627, 639, 643; assassination of, 1, 25, 123, 163�
�64, 272, 319, 323, 626; election of (1860), 515, 646; election of (1864), 64–65, 68; Emancipation Proclamation, 5, 14, 37, 46–47, 57, 102, 125, 134, 150, 207, 224; message to Congress (1863), 14–15; speech on Reconstruction, 14–18

  Little, G. L., 85

  Lobbyists, 331

  Local self-government, 155, 409–11, 426, 433

  Logan, John A., 345–46

  Long Branch, N.J., 591

  Louis XIV, 410

  Louisiana, 47, 63–64, 103, 460, 475–76, 522, 566, 568, 575, 623, 649; constitution, 15, 17, 225, 270, 272–74, 277, 343; freedmen in, 186, 225, 270–78, 356; mob violence in, 225, 270–78, 319, 333, 445–47, 449–55, 509, 512, 515–18, 521, 525–28, 543–45, 619; political situation in, 14–18, 285, 445, 520, 527–30, 532, 534–35, 537, 539–52, 635, 638–39, 641, 656

  Louisiana 2nd (Colored) Regiment, 244

  Louisville, Ky., 33, 261, 288, 506, 518, 555

  Louisville Courier-Journal, 512–13

  Lovejoy, Elijah P., 272

  Loveless, Isaac: letter to Ulysses S. Grant, 519

  Lowell, James Russell, 229

  Lowell, Mr., 29

  Luckey, Levi P., 592

  Luther, Martin, 311–12

  Luther v. Borden, 106

  Lycurgus, 105

  Lynch, John R.: speech in Congress on Civil Rights Bill, 553–60; speech in Congress on Mississippi, 611–18

  Lynching, 376

  Lyon, Nathaniel, 267

  M

  Macon, Ga., 141, 145

  Madison, James, 286, 338, 409

  Magna Carta, 406

  Magruder, John B., 112

  Maine, 143, 169, 249

  Manassas Junction, Va., 538, 573

  Manifest Destiny, 10

  Manufacturing, 370, 442, 511, 513, 571, 624, 644, 648–49

  Marriage: interracial, 216, 469–70; polygamous, 27; and women’s rights, 375

  Marsh, George, 450, 454

  Marsh, Luther P., 434

  Marsh, Willy, 450, 454

  Martial law, 28, 33–34, 35–37, 43, 189, 414–18

  Martin, Colonel, 74

  Martin, Frank, 600, 602

  Martin, Mr. (of Haralson County), 423–24

  Maryland, 169, 414, 522, 568, 648

  Masons, 162

  Massachusetts, 5, 66, 108–9, 142–43, 169, 467–69, 497, 530, 532, 567–68, 571, 624–25, 649–50

  Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 5, 12

  Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment, 244

  Matilda (of Colfax), 454

  Maury, Matthew F., 112

 

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