L.
Labor, free negro, [45]-[47], [266]-[267], [272]-[273]; Freedmen's Bureau, [46], [109]-[110], [266]; testimony of Joint Committee concerning, [82]; importation of labor, [268].
Lakin, Rev. A. S., agent of Northern Methodist Church in Alabama, [205]-[206], [207]-[208].
Land, price after Civil War, [4]; fertilizers for, [271], [272].
Lanier, Sidney, letter to Taylor, quoted, [279]-[280].
Latham, Henry, [29].
Lee, General R. E., president of Washington College, [17]-[18]; and his uniform, [20]; letter to Letcher, [31], [32]; kneels beside negro in church, [44]; witness before Joint Committee, [125]; and military reconstruction, [147]; disfranchised, [289].
Legislation, Negro, see ["Black Laws."]
Leslie, South Carolina carpetbagger, [225].
Letcher, John, Governor of Virginia, Lee writes to, [31], [32].
Lewis, D. P., of Alabama, and Union League, [189].
Lincoln, Abraham, and negro suffrage, [50], [66]-[67]; reconstruction policy, [55]-[57], [58], [62]; and Wade-Davis Bill, [56], [66], [120]; last speech quoted, [56]-[57]; reconstruction plan put to trial, [63]-[68]; Proclamation of December, 1863, [64], [119]; and Congress, [65]-[66], [67]-[68]; nominated by National Union party (1864), [70]; second Cabinet, [70]; and radicalism, [119]; vote for (1864), [285].
Lincoln Brotherhood, [275].
Lindsay, R. B., Governor of Alabama, on Northern missionaries, [205].
Longstreet, General James, [147].
Louisiana, recognizes "Union" state government, [18]; Whitelaw Reid in, [28]; Lincoln's reconstruction plan adopted (1862), [65]; Johnson recognizes government of, [74]; treatment of negroes by army in, [99]; Freedmen's Bureau courts in, [113]; representatives refused admission to Congress, [119]-[120]; military government in, [144]; negro voters, [151], [152], [222], [239]; equal rights legislation, [154], [275], [276]; schools, [215], [217]; carpetbag rule, [221]; conservatives, [223]; corruption, [225], [233]-[234], [235]; legislature, [226], [227], [240]; taxes, [231]; public debt, [232]; decrease in property values, [233]; negro militia, [236]-[237], two governments in, [239]; government over-turned, [240]-[241], omitted from Federal investigation, [262]; labor, [268]; and radicalism, [290], [294], [295]; elections, [293]-[294], [297], [298], [299].
Louisiana State Seminary, [3].
Louisiana State University, [217].
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, [7].
Loyal League, see [Union League].
Lynch, negro officeholder, [242 (note)].