The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States

by Walter L. Fleming

A.

Abolitionists, views on reconstruction, [60]-[61].
Adams, C. F., candidate for presidential nomination, [287].
Advertiser, Boston, Sidney Andrews as correspondent for, [28].
Advertiser of Montgomery, and education, [212].
Agriculture in the South, [267]-[269], [271], [273]-[274].
Alabama, corruption, [10]-[11]; poverty, [14]; Protestant Episcopal churches closed, [23]; labor, [47], [110], [268]; negro legislation, [97]; courts, [111]; and Fourteenth Amendment, [132]; negro voters, [151], [222]; constitutional convention, [153]; constitution, [153]-[154], [155]; abstention policy, [155], [156], [158], [223]; readmitted, [157], [170]; Union League in, [189]; negro churches, [206]; schools, [215]; illiterate magistrates, [225]; negro legislators, [226]; taxes, [231]; public debt, [232]; decrease in property values, [233]; value of railroads, [236]; negro voting, [238]; two governments in, [239]; legislature, [240]; vigilance committee, [245]; Ku Klux in, [246]; partially Democratic in 1870, [260]; permits mixed marriages, [276]; and radicalism, [290]; election (1874), [293].
Alabama claims, [283].
Alabama, University of, [3], [210], [216].
Alexandria (Va.), Virginia Government transferred to, [65], [74].
Alvord, J. W., quoted, [211].
Amendments, see [Constitution].
Ames, General Adelbert, commands military district, [141 (note)].
Amnesty, Johnson's proclamation, [9], [75]; use of pardoning power, [87]; Act of 1872, [288]-[289]; measure (1876), [295].
Anderson, T. C., of Louisiana, [298].
Andrew, J. A., Governor of Massachusetts, reconstruction policy, [61]-[62], [68].
Andrews, General Garnett, on fear of negroes, [278].
Andrews, Sidney, correspondent for Boston Advertiser, [28].
Appomattox, Grant at, [280].
Arkansas, [262]; recognizes "Union" State government, [18]; Lincoln's reconstruction plan adopted (1862), [65]; Johnson recognizes government, [74]; negro labor, [99]; representatives refused admission to Congress, [119]; abstention policy in regard to constitution, [155], [156], [170]; schools, [215]; scalawags in, [222]; corruption, [233]; railroad grant, [235]; split in state government, [239]; election (1874), [293].
Armstrong's Hampton Institute, see [Hampton Institute].
Army, officers assist civil authorities in South, [75]-[76]; utilizes negro labor, [99]-[100]; military rule in South, [135], [140] et seq.; see also [Occupation, Army of].
Ashley, J. M., of Ohio, [160].
Atlanta (Ga.), post-war condition, [5].
Attakapas Parish (La.), Ku Klux incident, [254]-[255].

B.

Banks, General Nathaniel, and captured slaves, [99].
Baptist Church, [198], [202].
Beauregard, General P. G. T., on negro suffrage, [147]-[148].
Bingham, J. A., and impeachment of Johnson, [166].
Black, Jeremiah, and impeachment of Johnson, [166].
"Black Belt," post-war condition, [40]-[41]; industrial revolution in, [265]-[267]; and whites, [271]; cotton production, [271-272 (note)]; domination of South by, [304]; see also [South].
Black Cavalry, [245].
Black Friday episode, [283].
"Black Laws," [89]-[90], [93]-[98], [115]-[116], [127], [141]; see also [Negroes], [legislation].
Blaine, J. G., quoted, [125]; and Republican party, [295].
Blair, F. P., of Missouri, Democratic nomination (1868), [168]-[169].
"Bloody shirt" issue in campaign of 1876, [295]-[296].
Border States, reconstruction in, [85]-[86]; see also [South].
Botts, J. M., of Virginia, [107].
Boutwell, G. S., radical leader, [122], [125]; and tenure of office act, [134]; and impeachment of Johnson, [166].
Boynton, General H. V. N., on Southern need of supplies, [5]-[6].
Bradley, Justice J. P., on electoral commission, [300].
"Brothers and Sisters of Pleasure and Prosperity," [275].
Brown, J. E., Governor of Georgia, and negro education, [212].
Brown, Gratz, candidate for presidential nomination, [287].
Brownlow, W. G., Governor of Tennessee, [224].
Bruce, B. K., negro senator, [242 (note)].
Buchanan, General R. C., commands military district in South, [141 (note)].
Bullock County (Ala.), Union League in, [192].
Butler, General B. F., and negro labor, [99]; radical, [125]; and impeachment of Johnson, [160], [166].

C.

Campbell, Judge, Lincoln gives reconstruction terms to, [67].
Canby, General, commands military department in South, [140-141 (note)], [163].
Cardozo, school official in Mississippi, [216].
Carpetbaggers, appointed to Federal offices, [80]; in radical Republican party, [149]; in conventions, [153]; and Union League, [193]; and religion, [205]; rule in South, [221] et seq.; use of term, [222]; and equal rights issue, [275]-[276]; government in hands of, [289 (note)]; against scalawags, [292].
Carter, Speaker of Louisiana Legislature, and railroad bills, [235].
Catholic Church, [23], [198].
Chamberlain, D. H., Governor of South Carolina, [225].
Charleston (S. C.), post-war condition, [5].
Chase, S. P., counsels against seizure of cotton, [9]; and negro suffrage, [28], [50], [132]; opposed to military reconstruction, [159]; advises Johnson against suspending Stanton, [163]; and impeachment of Johnson, [166]-[167].
Civil Rights Act, [84], [137], [141], [277].
Clanton, General J. H., of Alabama, on position of whites, [250].
Clayton, Judge, of Alabama, opinion of Freedmen's Bureau, [90].
Clayton, Mrs., Black and White under the Old Régime, quoted, [38]-[39].
Cleveland, soldiers' and sailors' convention at, [130]; Union League formed (1862), [176]-[177].
Clinton (Miss.), race conflict in, [237 (note)].
Cloud, school official in Alabama, [216].
Colfax, Schuyler, candidate for Vice President (1868), [168].
Colfax (La.), race conflict in, [237 (note)].
Columbia (S. C.), post-war condition, [5].
Congress, impatient of executive precedence, [65]-[66], [119]-[120]; and Southern representatives, [80], [86], [119]-[120], [128]; refuses to recognize reconstructed governments, [81]; Joint Committee on Reconstruction, [82], [84], [121], [125]-[126], [127], [129]-[130], [131], [198], [266 (note)]; Fourteenth Amendment, [82], [85], [130]; see also [Constitution]; radical reconstruction plans, [83]-[84]; radicalism, [83]-[84], [118] et seq., [285]; Civil Rights Act, [84], [137], [141], [277]; and Johnson, [126] et seq.; assumes control of reconstruction, [129], [142]-[143]; Tenure of Office Act, [134]; Army Appropriation Act, [134]; reconstruction acts, [134]-[137], [158]-[160]; supreme control, [140]; and Supreme Court, [158]-[159]; impeachment of President, [160] et seq.; and Grant, [171]; negro members, [230], [242]; Committee on the Condition of the South, [241]; Committee on the Late Insurrectionary States, [241]; enforcement acts, [260], [261]-[262], [290], [292], [303]; "Ku Klux Bill," [261], [262]; committee to investigate conditions in Southern States, [262]; Amnesty Act (1872), [288]-[289]; decline of radicalism, [289 (note)], [290]; investigates election, [294]; amnesty measure (1876), [295]; Electoral Commission, [299]-[300]; deadlocked by party issues, [302].
Connecticut and negro suffrage, [285].
Constitution, Johnson and, [72], [162]; Thirteenth Amendment, [79]; Fourteenth Amendment, [82], [84], [85], [130], [131]-[133], [135]-[136], [137], [156], [172]; Fifteenth Amendment, [169]-[170], [171], [172], [222], [290].
Constitutional conventions in South, [152] et seq.
Constitutional Union Guards, [245].
Conway, school official in Louisiana, [216].
Copperheads, [176].
Cotton, tax on, [8]; seized, [9]-[11]; destruction of, [11]; production (1880), [271-272 (note)].
Council of Safety, [245].
Coushatta (La.), race conflict in, [237 (note)].
Cowan, administration Republican, [122].
Credit Mobilier, [282].
Crittenden-Johnson resolutions, [55], [69].
Cuba, United States and, [284].
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, [204].
Cummings vs. Missouri, [159].
Curry, J. L. M., and negro education, [212], [214]-[215].
Curtis, B. R., counsel at impeachment, [166].

D.

Davis, David, candidate for presidential nomination, [287]; and Electoral Commission, [300].
Davis, Jefferson, prayer in Church for, [23]; succeeded by negro in Senate, [230]; disfranchised, [289]; and amnesty, [295].
Davis, Nicholas, characterizes Lakin, [205]-[206].
De Bow, J. D. B., on negro labor, [266 (note)].
Democratic party, and Crittenden-Johnson resolutions, [55], [69]; at end of war, [70]; Douglas Democrats, [70], [87]; and Johnson, [70], [88], [138]; "Democratic and Conservative" party, [150]; platform (1868), [169]; Union League and, [188], [190]-[191]; in Congress from South, [230]; Southern Unionists turn to, [277]; and Civil Rights Act, [277]; "New Departure," Democrats, [287]; supports Greeley, [288]; and election of 1876, [297]-[298]; and Electoral Commission, [300]; during period of adjustment, [302], [303].
Dennison, William, resigns from Cabinet, [131].
District of Columbia, negro suffrage in, [134]; corruption, [282].
Dixon, James, administration Republican, [122].
Dixon, W. H., [29].
Doolittle, administration Republican, [122].
Douglass, Frederick, quoted, [37]-[38].

E.

Eaton, John, chaplain in Grant's army, [99].
Eaton, Colonel John, [106].
Education, negro, [45]; Freedmen's Bureau and, [111]-[112]; in South, [208]-[220].
Elections under carpetbag rule, [237]-[239].
Electoral Commission, [299]-[300].
Emancipation Proclamation, [36], [176].
Enforcement acts, [260]-[261], [290], [292], [303].
Episcopal Church, [198], [204].
Evarts, W. M., counsel at impeachment, [166].
Ewing, Thomas, nominated Secretary of War, [164].