Notes

1.      Public Opinion Before and After the Civil War, p. 4.

2.      Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II, p. 244.

3.      Oberholtzer, Abraham Lincoln, p. 263.

4.      Results of Emancipation in the United States of America by a Committee of the American Freedman’s Union Commission in 1867, p. 6.

5.      Journal of Negro History, X, p. 134.

6.      Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 2.

7.      Results of Emancipation in the United States of America by a Committee of the American Freedman’s Union Commission in 1867, p. 21.

8.      Brown, Four Years in Secessia, p. 368.

9.      Ashe and Tyler, Secession, Insurrection of the Negroes, and Northern Incendiarism, p. 12.

10.    Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 2, 3, 19, 22, 134.

11.    Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 22.

12.    Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 166.

13.    Pierce, “Freedmen at Port Royal,” Atlantic Monthly, XII, p. 310.

14.    Testimony Before Reconstruction Committee, February 21, 1866, Part II, p. 221.

15.    Taylor, Reconstruction in South Carolina, pp. 29, 30.

16.    Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 37, 38.

17.    Campbell, Black and White in the Southern States, p. 165.

18.    Moore, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy, p. 145.

19.    Moore, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy, pp. 18-20.