Chapter XII: Reconstruction Period

Surrender of Lee 86
Right to Secede 87
Sherman’s March to the Sea 87
Home Coming of Soldiers 88
Assassination of Lincoln 89
Federal Officers 90
Conduct of Yankee Soldiers 90
Looters Follow Yankee Army 91
Provisional Government 91
The Negro Enfranchised 91
Carpetbaggers 92
The Negro Politician 92
Election a Farce 93
Legislature 93
County Officers 94
Crimes Committed 96
Negroes Offensive 96
Ku Klux Klan 97
Holden and Kirk 97
Judiciary Exhausted 98
Judge Brooks 99
Negro Problem 99
The Oldtime Darkey 100
The Emancipated Negro 101
The Coming South 103

Reminiscences of the Civil War, 1861-1865.