CHAPTER XIX.

Aspect of the Country at Termination of the War--The Returned 310 Confederate Soldier--Carpetbaggers--Lincoln's Vow--His Proclamation Concerning Confiscation of Slaves--How the Slaves Were Legally Liberated--Lincoln Murdered--Johnson President--His Thirst for Vengeance--"Treason" to Be Made Odious--Grant Declared That the Paroles Must Not Be Violated--Cost of a Bill of Dry Goods in Confederate Money in 1864--Leave Columbus for Greenville, Miss.--Desolate Home--The Good Israelite--Return to Columbus--I Go with Mrs. French to Mississippi--Traveling Incognito a Failure--Journey to New York in 1865--Incidents of My Mother and Child When They Went North--Home Confiscated--Edward Cooper's Kind Act--No One Would Touch Mother's Trunks--Copy of a Contract in 1865, Whereby I Obtained Funds--People under Espionage at the North--Return to the Plantation--Northern Plan to Terminate the War