Maximilian (Mexican emperor), 61, 69, 251
Maynard, Horace, 419, 423
McClellan, George B., 249
McDuffie, George, 436
McEnery, John, 506, 516–17, 542–43, 548
McGinn, Mr. (Memphis rioter), 254
McKeever, Hugh, 72
McKinney, Jesse, 452
McPherson, Edward S., 59–60, 259, 364, 402, 557
McPherson, James B., 82, 267
Mechanics Institutes, 343
Medley, William, 302
Melanchthon, Philip, 311
Memminger, Christopher: letter to Andrew Johnson, 87–91
Memphis, Tenn., 127, 225, 246–48, 252–57, 272, 376
Meninettee, Jerry, 34
Mentana, battle of, 623
Meridian, Miss., 77
Methodists, 72, 431, 629
Mexican-American War, 10, 269, 354, 627
Mexico, 10, 61, 69–70, 136, 251, 354, 414, 643
Mexico City, Mexico, 112
Military occupation. See Army, U.S., military occupation by
Military Reconstruction Acts, 226–27, 301, 319, 496
Militia, Georgia, 511
Militia, Louisiana, 445, 449–55, 520, 545
Militia, Mississippi, 80–81, 83, 86, 602
Militia, North Carolina, 381, 389
Militia, South Carolina, 393, 396–97, 658–59
Milledgeville, Ga., 143, 151, 632
Miller, Samuel F., 461
Milligan, Lambdin, 265
Milliken’s Bend, battle of, 163
Mills, Baptiste, 453–54
Milton, John, 509, 610
Mining, 370, 571
Minnesota, 109, 648
Miscegenation, 343, 420, 422–24, 504
Mississippi, 63–64, 103, 169, 365, 475, 522, 554, 563, 565, 568, 575, 649; constitution, 77–78; freedmen in, 234, 356, 589–90, 621; mob violence in, 366, 511–12, 525, 595–605, 619; political situation in, 52–53, 446, 590–94, 613, 656; taxation in, 614–16; unrest in, 77–86
Mississippi River, 515
Missouri, 286, 350, 366, 512, 568–69, 587, 648
Missouri Compromise, 354
Mitchel, John K., 111
Mitchell, John G., 635
Mixed public schools, 556–58
Mobile, Ala., 71–73, 77, 518
Mobile Advertiser and Register, 313–14
Mob violence, 225, 246–48, 252–57, 270–78, 319, 333, 335, 376, 445, 449–55, 509–18, 520–21, 525, 532, 543–45, 595–605, 619–20, 622, 624, 630
Modocs, 602
Monarchy, 62, 140
Monroe, John T., 270, 273–74
Monroe, Mr. (of Haralson County), 422, 424
Montgomery, Ala., 76–77, 314, 492, 495, 506
Montgomery, James, 245
Moore, Bartholomew F., 28
Moore, Jacob, 396
Moore, William G., 3
Morgan, John H., 261, 265
Mormons, 27
Morton, Oliver P., 225, 531, 534, 650; speech at Indianapolis, 260–69
Moss Hill riot, 597, 603–4
Mott, Lucretia, 372
Mulford, Elisha, 416
Murphy, Miss (of Haralson County), 424
Murray, Lindley, 237
N
Napoléon III, 69, 410
Nash, Captain (Colfax massacre participant), 450–55, 544
Nashville, Tenn., 26, 74–75, 113, 248
Natchitoches Vindicator, 512
Nation, The, 344–49, 416, 621–25, 647–51
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 59–60, 321, 328
National Assembly, French, 410
National credit, 370, 426, 440, 626, 634
National debt, 93, 99–101, 106–7, 147, 259, 262, 267, 308, 315, 369–71, 615–16, 660
National Theological Institute for Colored Ministers, 26–27
National Union Convention, 232, 292, 310, 323, 325, 333
National Women’s Rights Convention, 242–45
Naturalization, 215
Naturalization Act, 215
Natural law, 57
Natural rights, 114, 392, 404, 458
Navy, U.S., 14, 98, 223, 307, 426, 440, 527, 542
Nelson, G., 453
Nelson, Levi, 543; testimony in Colfax massacre trial, 449–52
Nelson, Parson (of Clinton), 599–602
Nelson, Thomas A. R., 345
Nero, 401
Netherlands, 354–55
Neutrality Bill, 281
New Bern, N.C., 24
“New Departure,” 365, 427, 475
New England, early settlers in, 400
New England Woman Suffrage Association, 373
New Hampshire, 143, 169, 649; constitution, 108
New Jersey, 47, 360–61
New London, Conn., 456
New Orleans, battle of, 457
New Orleans, La., 15, 31, 77, 225, 270–78, 319, 333, 372, 460–61, 506, 515–18, 525, 539, 543, 545, 564, 639, 648–49
New Orleans Republican, 452, 455
Newspapers, 143, 251, 267, 329, 345–46, 401, 510, 516–17, 538–39, 546, 591, 621
New York, 66, 68, 104, 109, 140, 143, 146, 169, 231, 272–73, 308, 360, 373–74, 434, 446, 532, 645, 649–50
New York City, 138, 242–43, 265–66, 352, 366, 372, 396, 425, 428–29, 431, 506, 538, 570, 627
New York Herald, 30, 475–78
New York News, 251
New York Society of Friends, 165
New York Times, 113, 249–51, 379–80, 428–34
New York Tribune, 109, 329–36, 346, 394–99, 435–39, 607
New York World, 272, 375
Niblack, William E., 561
Norcross, Jonathan, 633
Normans, 9–10
North Carolina, 87, 122, 169, 391, 479, 485, 487–89, 522, 565, 568, 649; constitution, 29, 315–16; freedmen in, 24–25, 141, 147–52, 184, 315–17, 322, 381–82, 385–90, 483, 488, 532; Ku Klux Klan in, 381–82, 385–89; political situation in, 28–31, 52–53, 138–40, 144, 146–47, 506, 656; social situation in, 140–45, 148; unrest in, 531–32
Northern Pacific Railroad, 649
Noxon, Joseph, 32
Nullification crisis, 199
O
O’Connell, Daniel, 359
Office holding: by former Confederates, 225–26, 234, 343, 397, 571, 613; by freedmen, 225, 315, 317, 365–66, 385, 435–39, 446, 520, 561, 575–76
Ohio, 66, 142, 175, 242, 322, 366, 446–47, 530
Ohio County, W. Va., 229
Ohio River, 51
Oligarchy, 56, 110, 316–17, 460
Olustee, Fla., 244
O’Neal, Peter, 633
Orangeburg, S.C., 35–43
Orange County, N.C., 385–86
Oregon, 64, 214, 358, 640
Osterhaus, Peter, 79–81, 84–86
Ottoman Empire, 10, 303
P
Packard, Stephen B., 532, 546, 624
Page, Aaron, 602–3
Palmer, John M., 33
Panic of 1873, 445
Papacy, 623
Pardons, presidential, 2, 29, 111, 114, 201, 284, 304
Paris, France, 410
Parker, John M. G., 624
Parliament, British, 90, 333
Parsons, Lewis E., 77
Parsons, Theophilus, 50, 101
Patronage, 82, 192, 366, 425–26, 442
Patterson, John J., 392
Pendergast, John, 253–55
Pendergast, Pat, 253
Penn, Clement, 450
Penn, Davidson B., 516–17, 520, 545
Pennsylvania, 21, 66, 68, 94, 114, 146, 169, 288, 293, 308, 361, 571, 648, 650
Pensions, 267, 282
Pericles, 303
Persia, 303
Peterboro, N.Y., 357
Petersburg, Va., 14, 162, 249, 481
Petition of Right, 415
Philadelphia, Pa., 30, 243–44, 292, 310, 323, 325, 333, 570
Philanthropists, 184–85, 480, 482, 537, 582, 648
Phillimore, Robert Joseph, 101–2
Phillips, Wendell, 5, 8, 13, 140, 204, 278, 285, 358, 361–63, 373–74, 485, 645–46; letter to National Anti-Slavery Standard, 59–60
Phillips County, Ark., 128
Pierrepont, Edwards, 446, 591; letter to Adelbert Ames, 593–94
Pike, James S.: “South Carolina Prostrate,” 435–39
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., 163
Plantations, 1–2, 22, 35–43, 83, 88, 127, 153–54, 165–66, 173, 177, 185–86, 279, 358, 567, 649
Poland, 61, 646
Political rights. See Suffrage
Polk, Trusten, 112
Poll taxes, 315
Polygamy, 27
Pontius Pilate, 279
Pope, Alexander, 207
Porterfield, William, 85
Port Hudson, La., 24, 244
Post Office Department, U.S., 85
Potomac River, 51, 192
Powell, Aaron M., 373
Powell, Lewis (alias Payne), 265
Powell, Mr. (judge), 292
Presbyterians, 30, 629
Presidential powers, 306–7, 320, 330, 413, 426
Press, freedom of the, 243, 317, 354, 509, 517
Price, Sterling, 112
Prince William County, Va., 167
Prisoners of war, 94, 97–98, 111–12, 163, 263, 265, 267, 537
Privateers, 94
Prize Cases, 44–45, 95
Property rights, 43, 76, 125, 218, 317
Prostitution, 375
Protestants, 311–12. See also individual sects
Prussia, 410
Public lands, 426
Pufendorf, Samuel von, 101
Q
Queen v. Nelson (Britain, 1867), 416
Quincy, Edmund, 5, 13
R
Race riots, 335, 517–18; in Clinton, Miss., 597–605; in Colfax, La., 445, 449–55, 543–44; in Hamburg, S.C., 619–20, 622, 624, 630; in Memphis, Tenn., 225, 246–48, 252–57; in New Orleans, La., 225, 270–78, 319, 333
Radicalism, 231–34, 297–98, 314, 322, 332, 345, 365, 379, 513, 519
Radical Republicans, 4, 78, 108, 225, 232–33, 276–78, 283, 313–14, 322–23, 325–28, 336, 346, 350, 546, 589–90
Railroads, 426, 440–41, 649; discrimination on, 245, 491–93, 495, 506–7, 555, 562–63
Rainey, Joseph H., 366; speech in Congress on Enforcement Bill, 400–408; speech in Congress on South Carolina elections, 658–61
Raleigh, N.C., 141, 158, 381
Randall, Samuel J., 658, 660
Rapidan River, 249
Rapier, James T.: speech in Congress on Civil Rights Bill, 490–508
Reactionism, 321–28
Readmission of states, 78, 96, 226, 266, 282, 308–9, 333, 365, 440–41
Reconstruction: after, 645–51, 655–61; congressional, 225–364; during first administration of Ulysses S. Grant, 365–439; presidential, 1–224; during second administration of Ulysses S. Grant, 440–644; wartime, 1, 14–18
“Redeemed South,” 447
Red River Parish, La., 509
Reformation, Protestant, 311–12
Religious slavery, 355
Reorganization of state governments, 28, 56–57, 59, 92, 226, 350
Republicanism, 48, 52, 55–57, 61, 92–93, 96, 104, 106, 108–9, 140, 142, 147, 229–30, 292, 307, 316, 328, 383, 389, 403, 440, 473, 526, 537, 554–55, 577, 579, 591
Republican Party, 56, 67, 69, 238, 291, 304, 309–10, 379, 389, 391, 398–99, 408, 430, 432, 475, 477, 538–39, 609, 612–13, 629, 655; during Civil War, 264, 628; in Congress, 3–4, 225–28, 237, 276–78, 300, 313–14, 329, 446, 559–60, 566, 572, 622, 637; and corruption, 445, 476, 478, 623, 625; and election of 1865, 68; and election of 1868, 344, 350, 352, 356, 365, 388, 540; and election of 1872, 366–67, 433–34, 445, 540; and election of 1876, 446–47, 623–25, 632–35, 638–40, 656; and freedmen, 359–60, 378, 533–34, 578–80, 587, 589–90, 617, 630; and impeachment of President Johnson, 227, 329, 331–32, 344–48; in the North, 3, 532; and presidency of Andrew Johnson, 3, 66, 276–78; as Radicals, 4, 78, 108, 225, 232–33, 276–78, 283, 313–14, 322–23, 325–28, 336, 346, 350, 546, 589–90; reactionism in, 321–28; in the South, 365–66, 385, 392, 403, 406, 445–47, 476, 487, 505, 509–10, 516–18, 531, 540, 544–46, 548, 550, 556, 563, 565–66, 569, 589–90, 594–95, 603, 605–6, 615, 619, 621, 632, 658–60; and woman suffrage, 226, 357, 359–60
Restoration of states, 3, 101–3, 105–6, 196, 198, 606
Revolution, The, 363, 372
Revolutionary War, 11, 169, 209, 231, 283, 320, 411, 436, 456, 501, 567, 627
Rhode Island, 143, 169, 628, 640
Rice, 165–66, 486, 648–49
Rice, Dan, 288
Rice, Waddy, 597
Richmond, Va., 6, 14, 45, 94, 112, 162, 244, 249–50, 264, 302, 327, 481
Richmond Whig, 513
Rio Grande, 51, 136, 192
Roach, Mr. (Memphis policeman), 253
Robbins, William M., 479–80, 484, 489, 508
Roberts, M., 450
Robertson, Lewis, 255
Robertson, Thomas J., 392
Rockaway, N.J., 361
Rome, ancient, 348, 401
Romulus, 105
Ross, Edmund G., 348
Roxborough, Charles A., 34
Ruger, Thomas H., 637
Russell, John, 294
Russell, Lewis, 604
Russell, William, 95
Russia, 10, 87, 111, 304, 330, 357
Rutherford, Thomas, 101
S
St. Augustine, Fla., 648
St. Louis, Mo., 276, 288, 335, 648
St. Louis Globe Democrat, 512, 645–46
Salisbury Prison, 267
Santo Domingo, 62, 441, 507, 536
Savannah, Ga., 158, 165–66, 518
Saxon, A., 72
Saxton, Rufus, 43
Schofield, John M., 302
Schurz, Carl, 366; letter to Andrew Johnson, 76–86; Report on the Condition of the South, 153–57; speech in Congress on Louisiana, 526–34
Scott, Mr., 162
Scott, Robert K., 624; letter to Ulysses S. Grant, 391–92
Scott, Walter, 130, 572
Scottish Americans, 484
Scott v. Sandford, 244, 301, 365, 383
Sea Islands, 31, 125–26, 186
Secession, 2, 16, 19–20, 28, 32, 54, 64, 77–78, 93, 106, 113–14, 122, 125, 134, 142, 145–46, 151, 158, 201, 234, 237, 260, 267, 273, 283, 304, 309, 355, 411, 498, 606, 626–27, 632–33, 657
Sectionalism, 310, 568, 650
Sedan, battle of, 410
Segregation, 63, 343, 447
Sellers, William, 509
Selma, Ala., 76, 85
Seminoles, 354
Semmes, Raphael, 94
Senate, U.S., 95, 188, 194–95, 197, 203, 206, 208, 214, 224, 226, 342, 350, 383, 540; and disputed election of 1876, 639, 642, 644; and Fifteenth Amendment, 364; and Fourteenth Amendment, 258–59; impeachment of President Johnson, 227, 344–48; testimony on Clinton riot, 597–605; testimony on murder of John Walthall, 419–24; and War Department appointments, 227, 330, 337–39, 341. See also Congress, U.S.
Seneca, 398
Sepoy Rebellion, 572
Serfdom, 62, 106, 156, 536
Seward, William H., 9, 68–70, 289, 298, 309, 623
Seymour, Horatio, 228, 352, 354, 356, 506
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, 404; 1 Henry IV, 65; 2 Henry IV, 539; Julius Caesar, 408, 418; Measure for Measure, 106, 122
Shanklin, George S., 256
Sharkey, William L., 80–83, 86
Shaw, Mr. (Colfax sheriff ), 455, 544
Shellabarger, Samuel, 405, 409, 413, 415
Shenandoah Valley, 6
Sheridan, Philip H., 251, 267, 318, 529–30, 536–37, 539, 549; letter to Ulysses S. Grant, 270–71; letters to William Belknap, 525
Sherman, William T., 38, 42, 186, 250–51, 264, 267, 479, 481, 655
Sherwood, Lorenzo, 2
92
Shiloh, battle of, 163
Shreveport, La., 546
Sicily, 348
Sickles, Daniel E., 318, 361
Sickles, Hiram F., 166
Sickles, Teresa Bagioli, 361
Silver Spring, Md., 61
Simmons, Franklin B., 249
Singleton, Otho R., 611–14, 618
Sixth Amendment, 94
Slaughter-House Cases, 459–62, 465–67, 472–73
Slave laws, 101, 183
Slavery, 1, 22, 27–28, 30, 36–37, 39, 43, 67, 71, 92, 101, 109, 118, 120, 129, 133, 141, 143, 150, 158, 180, 200–201, 215, 243, 267, 269, 292, 295, 310, 316, 324, 379–80, 400–401, 405, 411, 460, 471, 485–86, 511, 515–16, 536–38, 541, 567–68, 575–76, 585, 596, 608, 647, 656; abolition of, 2, 17, 47, 78, 102–3, 122, 134, 156, 169, 172, 174, 179, 183, 191, 207, 221, 224, 272, 282, 303, 309, 354, 462, 535, 570, 581, 587, 628; apologists for, 265, 355, 627; brutality of, 52–53, 296, 436; and Civil War, 8–9, 20, 61, 146, 430, 472, 607; and congressional apportionment, 115, 308; contract labor as, 5–6; as “corner-stone” of Confederacy, 48, 98, 470, 498; effect on slaveholder, 104–5, 610; and U.S. Constitution, 105, 115, 434, 473
Slaves, 10, 34, 159, 171, 192, 224, 482, 499, 586, 630; as contraband, 311; emancipation of, 1–4, 15, 24, 26, 46–48, 50, 87–88, 102, 104, 133, 156, 194, 279–80, 300, 366, 379–80, 436, 438, 440, 472, 480, 484–85, 515, 570, 575–76, 584, 607, 610, 624; fugitive, 9, 237, 354, 375, 536; and non-slaveholding whites, 115, 174, 179; and slaveholders, 90, 147–48, 150–51, 163, 173, 223, 295, 374, 610; treatment of, 74–75, 125, 164, 168
Slave trade, 439, 515
Slidell, John, 204
Sloan, Mr. (Colfax massacre participant), 450
Slocum, Henry W., 80–83, 85–86
Sloss, Joseph H., 506
Slough, Robert H., 71
Smedes, A. B., 81
Smith, Andrew J., 71–72
Smith, Charley, 256
Smith, Ferdinand, 72
Smith, Gerrit, 357–63, 537–38
Smith, Volney V., 522
Smith, William, 403
Smyth, Alexander, 102
Social equality, 311, 441, 486, 508, 553–56, 585
Socialism, 377
Somerville, Tenn., 127
Soule, Charles C.: correspondence with Oliver O. Howard, 35–43
South America, 70
South Carolina, 29, 59, 79, 93, 165, 169, 199, 231, 308, 394, 419, 434, 456, 467, 491, 522, 568, 575, 623, 648–49; constitution, 131, 466; freedmen in, 35–43, 125–26, 129–32, 141, 147–52, 160, 166, 175, 234, 391–92, 396–98, 400–403, 406–8, 435–39; Ku Klux Klan in, 394–98, 403; mob violence in, 366, 619–20, 622, 624, 630, 637–38; political situation in, 138–40, 144, 146–47, 391–93, 435–39, 446–47, 635, 637–38, 641, 656, 658–61; social situation in, 83–84, 140–45, 148, 515
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