Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

by Walter L. Fleming

[701] Miller, “Alabama,” p. 242.

[702] N. Y. Herald, Dec. 15, 1865.

[703] The wife of one of these officers was a notorious prostitute.

[704] Selma Times, Feb. 22, 1866.

[705] From Ms. account by a citizen of Greensboro. The young man who came so near hanging was some years later a hotel proprietor in Birmingham and created much newspaper discussion by ordering General Sherman to leave his hotel.

[706] See Mrs. Clayton, “White and Black Under the Old Régime,” pp. 152-153.

[707] Washington, “Up From Slavery,” pp. 23, 24.

[708] Columbus (Ga.) Sun, Nov. 22, 1865; The World, July 20, 1865; N. Y. Herald, July 23, 1865; Parsons’s Speech, Cooper Institute, Nov. 13, 1865; Riley, “Baptists of Alabama,” pp. 305, 307; Ball, “Clarke County,” p. 294; Herbert, “Solid South,” pp. 19, 20; Miller, “History of Alabama,” Ch. CXLI; oral accounts.

[709] N. Y. Herald, Aug. 27, 1865; Mobile Register, Aug. 16, 1865.

[710] Huntsville Advocate, July 26 and Nov. 9, 1865; McTyeire, “History of Methodism”; Riley, “Baptists of Alabama”; conversations with various negroes and whites.