[104] Rhodes, History of the United States, vi, 104.

[105] McPherson, Reconstruction, p. 307.

[106] Diary of Gideon Welles, iii, 335.

[107] Diary of Gideon Welles, iii, 355.

[108] Diary of Gideon Welles, iii, 358.

[109] This fact is mentioned in Dunning's Reconstruction, p. 107, on the authority of ex-senator Henderson. The latter verbally made the same statement to me.

[110] Century Magazine, January, 1913.

[111] History of the United States, vi, 156.

[112] Cong. Globe, 1869, p. 113.