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Reconstruction

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by Brooks D. Simpson


  South Carolina 2nd (Colored) Regiment, 245

  Southern Loyalist Convention, 310, 323, 325, 333

  Spain, 10, 354

  Spartanburg County, S.C., 392

  Spartanburg Republican, 402–3

  Specie payment, 370–71

  Speech, freedom of, 139–49, 243, 272, 317, 354, 509, 517, 606, 658

  Springfield Republican, 19–20

  Stamback, W. E., 127–28

  Stanbery, Henry, 345

  Stanton, Edwin M., 68–69, 83, 108, 139, 158, 227, 330–31, 337, 339–41, 346–48

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 372–74; “Gerrit Smith on Petitions,” 357–63

  State citizenship, 214, 300, 466–67, 473

  State Department, U.S., 122, 259, 364, 623

  State governments: freedmen in, 225, 365–66, 385, 435–39, 520; reorganization of, 28, 56–57, 59, 92, 226, 350; under military supervision, 226, 426, 657

  States’ rights, 1, 19, 55, 61, 64, 78, 139, 147, 158, 294–95, 411, 457–59, 498–500, 508, 564

  Steamships, 440–41

  Stearns, George L.: interview with Andrew Johnson, 113–16

  Stephens, Alexander H., 8, 237, 457, 459–60, 462, 464–65, 470–71, 498–99, 501

  Stephens, John W., 385, 389

  Stevens, Albert, 605

  Stevens, Joe, 605

  Stevens, John, 257

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 4, 204, 229, 232, 252, 278, 285, 345–47, 570; speech in Congress on Fourteenth Amendment, 235–41; speech in Congress on impeachment, 329–36; speech in Congress on Reconstruction, 301–12; speech at Lancaster (1865), 92–107; speech at Lancaster (1866), 288–93

  Stokes, Mr. (of Haralson County), 423

  Stoneman, George, 252; letter to Ulysses S. Grant, 246–48

  Story, Joseph, 338

  Strong, William, 541

  Suffrage, 231, 295, 299, 308, 311, 446, 658, 661; for black men, 6–11, 16–17, 24–25, 28–32, 48–50, 52–53, 61–64, 66, 88, 96, 108–9, 114–16, 123, 131, 133, 148–49, 170, 172, 175, 177–79, 225–28, 239–40, 258, 277–78, 291, 293, 300, 309–10, 315, 322, 326, 351, 357–62, 365–66, 371–75, 377, 379–80, 383–85, 388–89, 398, 405, 412, 425, 428–29, 447, 458, 463, 467–69, 485, 491, 494, 496–97, 505, 509, 521, 524, 531, 533–34, 536, 540–41, 546, 561, 577–80, 606–7, 609, 612, 619–20, 645–46, 657; for former Confederates, 11, 25, 32, 177, 225, 240, 258, 283, 291, 426, 433; impartial, 426, 433; for loyal white southerners, 292, 327; universal, 6–7, 109, 115, 175, 239, 285, 357, 359, 362, 380, 433, 657; for women, 7, 49, 226, 229–30, 243, 245, 357–62, 365, 372–75. See also Fifteenth Amendment

  Sugarcane, 648–49

  Sumner, Charles, 4, 109–10, 204, 232, 237, 278, 429, 485; letter to Gideon Welles, 56–58

  Sumter County, S.C., 658–59

  Supremacists, white, 4, 62–63, 225, 366, 381–82, 385–89, 394–98, 403, 407, 412, 423, 432, 445, 496, 506, 509, 515–18, 520–21, 525, 536, 538–39, 545–46, 548–50, 610, 616, 632, 645–46

  Supreme Court, Louisiana, 460

  Supreme Court, U.S., 186, 284–85, 314, 330–31, 477, 496, 644; Corfield v. Coryell, 493; Dred Scott decision, 244, 301, 365, 383; Ex parte Milligan, 265, 301–2, 416–18; Luther v. Borden, 106; Prize Cases, 44–45, 95; Slaughter-House Cases, 459–62, 465–67, 472–73; U.S. v. Cruikshank, 445–47, 543; U.S. v. Reese, 446

  Surratt, Mary, 108

  Swedish immigrants, 648

  Swinton, William, 249

  Switzerland, 357

  T

  Taney, Roger, 244, 383

  Taxation, 100–101, 208–9, 214, 283, 315, 317, 333, 343, 370–71, 426, 429, 438, 445, 505, 515, 523, 531, 556, 572, 611–16

  Taylor, F. D., 72

  Taylor, Richard, 250

  Telegraph, 440–41

  Temps, Le, 108–12, 377–78

  Tennessee, 26, 32, 74–75, 102–3, 115, 173, 199, 205–6, 226, 240, 515, 522, 555, 568; constitution, 195; freedmen in, 127–28, 225, 246–48, 252–57, 356; lynching in, 376; mob violence in, 225, 246–48, 252–57, 272, 509, 518

  Tennyson, Alfred, 152

  Tenure of Office Act, 227, 334, 338–41, 346–48

  Territories, 47, 96, 217–18, 221, 292, 309

  Territory, extension of, 440–41

  Terrorism, by southern whites, 225, 365–66, 381–82, 385–89, 391–92, 401–3, 445–46, 449–55, 509–18, 520–21, 525, 532, 543–45, 595–605, 619–20, 622, 624, 630

  Terry, Alfred H., 122

  Tertullian, 207

  Testimony, of freedmen, 2, 4, 49–50, 71–72, 79, 131, 134, 149, 238, 462, 496, 561, 646

  Texas, 250, 270, 354, 365, 423–24, 475–76, 570; constitution, 133–34; freedmen in, 135–36, 356; political situation in, 133–35, 292; unrest in, 135–37

  Thirteenth Amendment, 2, 17–18, 47, 60, 78, 103, 134, 150, 169, 183, 207–8, 224, 294, 309, 433–34, 458, 460, 462–65, 472, 496, 500, 507, 523, 582, 587, 634

  Thomas, Lorenzo, 340–41, 346–47

  Tilden, Samuel J., 446, 623, 638–40, 642, 644

  Tillman, Alex, 449–51, 454

  Tilton, Theodore, 373–74

  Tinney, Mr. (Clinton massacre participant), 603–4

  Tobacco, 570–71, 648–49

  Toombs, Robert, 8, 204, 355

  Tourgée, Albion W.: address to voters of Guilford, 315–17; letter to Joseph Abbott, 385–90; letter to National Anti-Slavery Standard, 321–28; “Root, Hog, or Die,” 606–10

  Townsend, Cynthia: testimony to House Select Committee, 253–57

  Trainer, C., 72

  Treason, 2, 4, 20–22, 32, 54, 92, 94, 113, 164, 200–202, 204, 240, 261–62, 268–69, 284, 292, 294, 299, 304, 308–10, 318, 399, 407, 430, 537, 627

  Treasury, U.S., 57, 85, 123, 191, 222, 370, 477

  Treasury Department, C.S., 30

  Treasury Department, U.S., 597

  Tribune Almanac and Political Register, 532

  Trojan War, 645

  Trumbull, Lyman, 4, 346–48

  Tubman, Harriet, 244–45

  Tucker, John R., 614

  Turks, 10, 303

  Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens): “Only a Nigger,” 376

  U

  “Uncle Tom,” 13

  Underwood, John C., 563

  Unionists, 3, 32, 109, 144–46, 151, 232, 266–68, 275, 310, 322, 515, 517–18, 550

  U.S. 1st Colored Infantry Regiment, 117–21

  U.S. 3rd Colored Artillery Regiment, 246, 248

  U.S. Military Academy (West Point), 636

  U.S. Sanitary Commission, 12, 264

  U.S. v. Cruikshank, 445–47, 543

  U.S. v. Reese, 446

  Universal suffrage, 6–7, 109, 115, 175, 239, 285, 357, 359, 362, 380, 433, 657

  Usurpation of powers, 106, 206, 298, 307, 318–19, 330–31, 337, 342, 344

  Utica, N.Y., 591

  V

  Vagrancy laws, and freedmen, 2, 37, 343

  Vance, Robert B., 479, 485, 565, 568

  Van Winkle, Peter G., 346, 348

  Vattel, Emerich de, 97, 101

  Vaughan, Hester, 361

  Vermont, 108, 141, 143, 169, 640, 648

  Verres, Gaius, 348

  Veto, presidential, 4, 188–97, 214–24, 232, 281, 286, 332, 369, 426

  Vicksburg, Miss., 76, 82, 480, 519, 525, 602–3

  Virginia, 15, 32, 94, 103, 158, 169, 249–50, 309, 365, 522, 529, 549; constitution, 327, 570–71; freedmen in, 122–23, 167–68; political situation in, 292, 534, 561–73; social situation in, 513–14; unrest in, 530–31

  Voting rights. See Suffrage

  W

  Wade, Benjamin F., 364, 499

  Wages, 38, 40, 75, 84, 122, 128, 151, 165–66, 194

  Waite, Morrison R., 477

  Walker, Gilbert C., 569

  Walker, John C., 265

  Wallace, Charley, 253

  Walthall, John, 419–24

  Walthall, Mrs. John, 420, 422, 424

  Wanderer (slave ship), 439

  War, laws of, 44–47, 50–55
, 93–102, 296, 302, 305–6

  War Department, U.S., 43, 70, 77, 85, 187, 189, 227, 330, 340–41

  Warmoth, Henry C., 540–42

  War of 1812, 11, 45, 269, 457, 627

  Warren, Mr. (Hudson County coroner), 361

  Washburne, Elihu B.: letter to Thaddeus Stevens, 252

  Washington, Bushrod, 493

  Washington, David, 597–98

  Washington, D.C., 15, 42, 85, 97, 113, 117, 119, 158, 169–70, 174, 178, 181, 188, 191, 194, 198, 207, 214, 243–44, 249, 288, 297, 331, 348, 350, 369, 399, 440, 492, 503, 506, 525, 554, 567, 569, 593, 597, 619, 635, 642

  Washington, George, 105, 198–99, 285, 372, 456, 458, 567, 570; Farewell Address, 383–84

  Washington College, 356

  Washington County, Ga., 632

  Washington Monument, 198–99

  Watson, James L., 302

  Welles, Gideon, 56–58

  West Indies, 90, 486

  West Liberty, W. Va., 229

  Wheeler, William A., 625, 633

  Whig Party, 28, 67, 269, 310

  Whipping, of freedmen, 2, 33, 76, 84, 154, 315, 381, 392, 403, 421, 424, 621, 638

  Whiskey Ring, 333, 346, 348

  White, Captain (Colfax massacre victim), 453

  White, Henry H., 34

  White, Shack, 450, 452

  Whitehead, Thomas: speech in Congress on Civil Rights Bill, 561–73

  White Leagues, 509, 516–18, 521, 525, 536, 539, 545–46, 548–50, 610, 616, 645–46

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 398, 588

  Whittlesey, Eliphalet, 184

  Whittlesey, Lunar, 122

  Whittlesey, Oscar, 122

  Whittlesey, Sarah: letter to Andrew Johnson, 122–24

  Williams, George H., 477

  Williams, Joe, 505–6

  Williams, John M. S., 570

  Williams, Joseph, 127

  Williams, Thomas, 345

  Williams, William, 453

  Williamson, J. A.: letter to Nathan A. M. Dudley, 127–28

  Williamson, L. P., 127

  Wilmington, N.C., 28–30

  Wilson, Henry, 530

  Wilson, James F., 345

  Winchester, Va., 529

  Winnsboro, S.C., 396

  Winsmith, John, 402–3

  Winters, Valentine, 75

  Wirz, Henry H., 97, 111–12, 265, 308

  Wisconsin, 109, 169

  Wise, Henry A., 355

  Women, southern, 140, 251

  Women’s rights, 7, 49, 226, 229–30, 242–45, 357–63, 365, 372–75

  Woods, Charles R., 77

  Woods, Mr. (lynching victim), 376

  Woods, William B., 543

  Woodward, George W., 337

  Worcester, Mass., 109

  Working Women’s Association, 375

  Y

  Yerger, James R., 82

  York, P. Jones, 86

  Young, Brigham, 27

  Young, John Russell, 329–36; Around the World with General Grant, 655–57

  Z

  Zulus, 660

 

 

 


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