[691] Chicago Tribune, (fall of) 1865, Montgomery correspondence.
[692] Governor Patton’s Message, Jan. 16, 1866.
[693] Oral accounts; Daily News, Sept. 3, 1865 (Selma correspondence).
[694] Ordinances, No. 4, Sept. 20, 1865, and No. 54, Sept. 30, 1865.
[695] Reid, “After the War,” pp. 351, 352; Ordinance, No. 43, Sept. 30, 1865.
[696] Daily Times, Aug. 17, Nov. 2, and Dec. 27, 1865; Report of Carl Schurz; oral accounts.
[697] Report of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Oct. 24, 1865; Patton’s Message, Jan. 16, 1866; Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Pt. III, p. 140.
[698] N. Y. Times, Oct. 10, 1865. See also Resolutions of Legislature, 1865-1866.
[699] Joint Memorial and Resolutions of the General Assembly, in Acts of Ala. (1865-1866), pp. 598-600.
[700] Memorial and Joint Resolutions, Acts of Ala. (1865-1866), pp. 601-603.