[7] This statement is based on information obtained from numerous participants in the Reconstruction of the Southern States. Among these are John R. Lynch, Thomas E. Miller, T. T. Allain, and P. B. S. Pinchback.
[8] This is the testimony of white persons obtained by the writer.
[9] These facts were obtained through Mr. W. T. Andrews who lived in South Carolina.
[10] Simmons, Men of Mark, pp. 113, 829, 948, 1023; Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration, pp. 124-125.
[11] Report of Joint Committee to Investigate the Treasurer's Office, State of Louisiana, to the General Assembly, 1877, pp. 7-12. Majority Report; Journal of Negro History, Vol. II, pp. 77-78.
[12] Lynch, Facts of Reconstruction, ch. III. Journal of Negro History, Vol. II, p. 30.
[13] Garner, Reconstruction in Mississippi; Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, p. 17.
[14] Stanwood, A History of Presidential Elections, 260.
[15] Ibid., 291.
[16] Ibid., 287.