CHAPTER XX.
Freedmen's Bureau--Gen. O. O. Howard, Commissioner--Platform for 328 Reconstruction--Ironclad Oath--Natural Rights of Man--Civil Rights--Negroes Made Citizens--Persecution--Agents of Freedmen's Bureau--Personal Experience--Negro Justices--Some Trials--Judge Shackelford--Secret Societies--William A. Sharkey--Gov. Adelbert Ames--Sheriff Webber--Taxes--Board of Levee Commissioners Dismissed--Religious Negroes--Bishop Wilmer--Prayers for the President--Shotgun Election--Hegira--Carpetbaggers--Indissoluble Union--Indestructible States--We Were a Conquered Nation--Reconstruction Only a Definition for Deeds Done--Strength of Respective Armies
APPENDIX.
SOME STATISTICS OF THE WAR 353 PERCENTAGE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN LATE WARS 355 SLAVE OWNERS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY 355 PRISON DEATHS AND PRISONERS 357 THE AUTHORITY TO TAX 358 COST OF THE WAR 359 NAVAL POWER OF THE UNITED STATES 359 NAMES, RANK, AND POSITIONS OF OFFICERS ON MY STAFF 359 GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA, 1875-76 360 VIOLATION OF PAROLES 365 CASSVILLE 367 SLAVERY PROCLAMATION AND CONFISCATION ACT 383 INDENTURE 385 OUR UNKNOWN DEAD 402
ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, ETC.
PAGE SAMUEL G. FRENCH Frontispiece PLAN OF BATTLE OF RESACA, MEX 52 PLAN OF BATTLE OF MONTEREY, MEX 63 MAP OF THE COUNTRY NEAR BUENA VISTA 75 PLAN OF BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA 79 JOHN C. FRENCH 119 JEFFERSON DAVIS 141 ROBERT E. LEE 171 JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON 179 LEONIDAS POLK 191 MAP OF CASSVILLE 197 MAP OF NEW HOPE CHURCH, GA 200 MAP OF BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN, JUNE 27, 1864 204 BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN 207 A. P. STEWART 213 MAP OF ATLANTA CAMPAIGN 224 F. M. COCKRELL 227 CAPTURE OF BLOCKHOUSE, ALLATOONA CREEK, OCTOBER 5, 1864 231 MAJ. D. W. SANDERS 235 MAP OF FORTIFICATIONS, ALLATOONA, GA 242 BATTLE OF ALLATOONA 250 SIGNAL TREE, ALLATOONA, OCTOBER 5, 1864 254 BATTLE OF ALLATOONA--CAPTURE OF REDOUBT "R" 259 RAILROAD CUT, ALLATOONA 269 JOSEPH M. BROWN 279 THE LONE GRAVE 282 MAP OF BATTLE OF FRANKLIN 293 JULIUS L. BROWN 363 THE INDENTURE 386 THE INDENTURE (reverse side) 390 HENRY WARD BEECHER SELLING SLAVES 393 JOSEPH E. BROWN 399
ERRATA.
The name of Joseph H. French, a brother of the writer, was inadvertently omitted on page 3.
On page 323, eleventh line, Edward Cooper should be Louis Cooper.
On page 334, last line, H. N. Hood should be W. N. Hood.
TWO WARS.