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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