[909] McPherson, p. 10.
[910] G. O., Nos. 5, 13, and 14, Department of Alabama, 1865.
[911] N. Y. Herald, June 21, 1865; Brewer and Garret, sub. nom.
[912] Article II, section 2: Article IV, section 4.
[913] Lewis Eliphalet Parsons, born 1817, Boone County, New York, was the son of a farmer and the grandson of the celebrated Jonathan Edwards. He came to Alabama in 1840 and practised law in Talladega, was a Whig, later a Douglas Democrat, and on both sides during the war. See above, p. [143].
[914] Here “loyal” seems to mean those who had taken the amnesty oath.
[915] Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VI, p. 323.
[916] Those who could take the iron-clad test oath of 1862.
[917] Sen. Ex. Doc., No. 26, p. 97, 39th Cong., 1st Sess.
[918] James Redpath in The Nation, Aug. 17, 1865, condensed.