Footnote-6

1: This is well treated in John Eaton's "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen". See also Coffin's "Boys of '61".

2: Williams, "History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion", p. 70.

3: Greely, "American Conflict", I, p. 585.

4: "Ibid"., II, p. 246.

5: "Official Records of the Rebellion", VIII, p. 628.

6: Williams, "Negro Troops", p. 66 et seq.

7: "Official Records of the Rebellion", VIII, p. 370; Williams, "Negro Troops", p. 75.

8: Eaton, "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen", pp. 87, 92.

9: Pierce, "Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina", passim; Botume, "First Days Among the Contrabands", pp. 10-22; and Pearson, "Letters from Port Royal", passim.

10: Eaton, "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen", p. 92.

11: "Ibid.", pp. 2, 3.

12: Report of the "Committee of Representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends" upon the "Condition and Wants of the Colored Refugees", 1862, p. 1 et seq.

13: "Report of the Committee of Representatives, etc"., p. 3.

14: At an entertainment of this school, Senator Pomeroy of Kansas, voicing the sentiment of Lincoln, spoke in favor of a scheme to colonize Negroes in Central America.

15: "Special Report" of the United States Commission of Education on the Schools of the District of Columbia, p. 215.

16: "Christian Examiner", LXXVI, p. 349.

17: Eaton, "Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen", pp. 18, 30.

18: Pierce, "The Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina, Official Reports"; and Pearson, "Letters from Port Royal written at the Time of the Civil War".

19: "Christian Examiner", LXXVI, p. 354.

20: "Continental Monthly", II, p. 193.

21: "Report" of the Committee of Representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends, p. 12.

22: Eaton, "Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen", p. 2.

23: Eaton, "Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen", p. 19. See also Botume's "First Days Amongst the Contrabands". This work vividly portrays conditions among the refugees assembled at points in South Carolina.

24: Eaton, "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen", p. 15.

25: Williams, "Negro in the Rebellion", pp. 90-98.

26: "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion", VII, pp. 503, 510, 560, 595, 628, 668, 698, 699, 711, 723, 739, 741, 757, 769, 787, 801, 802, 811, 818, 842, 923, 934; VIII, pp. 444, 445, 451, 464, 555, 556, 564, 584, 637, 642, 686, 690, 693, 825.

27: Eaton, "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen", pp. 34-35.

28: Ames, "From a New England Woman's Diary", passim; and Pearson, "Letters from Port Royal", passim.

29: Ames, "From a New England Woman's Diary in 1865", passim.

30: "Special Report" of the United States Commissioner of Education on the Schools of the District of Columbia, p. 217.

31: Eaton, "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen", p. 37.

32: Eaton, "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen", p. 38.

33: "Ibid.", p. 39.

34: Starr, "What shall be done with the People of Color in the United States", p. 25; Ward, "Contrabands", pp. 3, 4.

35: It is said that Lincoln suggested colonizing the contrabands in South America.

36: "Atlantic Monthly", XII, p. 308.

37: Levi Coffin, "Reminiscences", p. 671.

38: "Atlantic Monthly", XII, p. 309.

39: "Ibid.", XII, pp. 310-311.

40: "Ibid"., p. 311.

41: Hamilton, "Reconstruction in North Carolina", pp. 156, 157.

42: Eckenrode, "Political History of Virginia during the Reconstruction", p. 43.

43: Hall, "Andrew Johnson", p. 258.

44: Thompson, "Reconstruction in Georgia", p. 44.

45: Davis, "Reconstruction in Florida", p. 341.

46: Ficklen, "History of Reconstruction in Louisiana", p. 118.

47: Fleming, "The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama", p. 271.

48: Thompson, "Reconstruction in Georgia", p. 69.

49: "Ibid.", p. 69.

50: This exodus became considerable again in 1888 and 1889 and the Negro population has continued in this direction of plentitude of land including not only Arkansas and Texas but Louisiana and Oklahoma, all which received in this way by 1900 about 200,000 Negroes.

51: "American Journal of Political Economy", XXII, pp. 10, 40.

52: "Ibid.", XXV, p. 1038.

53: Mecklin, "Black Codes".

54: Dunning, "Reconstruction", pp. 54, 59, 110.

55: DuBois, "Freedmen's Bureau".

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