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Edward L. Pierce to Governor
Andrew.--Death of Col. Shaw.--Colored Troops in the Army of the
Potomac.--Battle of Petersburg.--Table showing the Losses at
Nashville.--Adjt.-Gen. Thomas on Negro Soldiers.--An Extract from
the "New York Tribune" in Behalf of the Soldierly Qualities of the
Negroes.--Letter received by Col. Darling from Mr. Aden and Col.
Foster praising the Eminent Qualifications of the Negro for Military
Life.--History records their Deeds of Valor in the Preservation of the
Union 310
CHAPTER XX.
CAPTURE AND TREATMENT OF NEGRO SOLDIERS.
The Military Employment of Negroes Distasteful to the Rebel
Authorities.--The Confederates the First to employ Negroes as
Soldiers.--Jefferson Davis refers to the Subject in his Message, and the
Confederate Congress orders All Negroes captured to be turned over to
the State Authorities, and raises the "Black Flag" upon White Officers
commanding Negro Soldiers.--The New York Press calls upon the
Government to protect its Negro Soldiers.--Secretary Stanton's
Action.--The President's Order.--Correspondence between Gen. Peck
and Gen. Pickett in Regard to the Killing of a Colored Man after he had
surrendered at the Battle of Newbern.--Southern Press on the Capture
and Treatment of Negro Soldiers.--The Rebels refuse to exchange
Negro Soldiers captured on Morris and James Islands on Account of
the Order of the Confederate Congress which required them to be
turned over to the Authorities of the Several States.--Jefferson Davis
issues a Proclamation outlawing Gen. B. F. Butler.--He is to be hung
without Trial by any Confederate Officer who may capture him.--The
Battle of Fort Pillow.--The Gallant Defence by the Little Band of
Union Troops.--It refuses to capitulate and is assaulted and captured by
an Overwhelming Force.--The Union Troops butchered in Cold
Blood.--The Wounded are carried into Houses which are fired and
burned with their Helpless Victims.--Men are nailed to the Outside of
Buildings through their Hands and Feet and burned alive.--The
Wounded and Dying are brained where they lay in their Ebbing

Blood.--The Outrages are renewed in the Morning.--Dead and Living
find a Common Sepulchre in the Trench.--General Chalmers orders the
Killing of a Negro Child.--Testimony of the Few Union Soldiers who
were enabled to crawl out of the Gilt-Edge, Fire-Proof Hell at
Pillow.--They give a Sickening Account of the Massacre before the
Senate Committee on the Conduct of the War.--Gen. Forrest's Futile
Attempt to destroy the Record of his Foul Crime.--Fort Pillow
Massacre without a Parallel in History 350
Part 8.
THE FIRST DECADE OF FREEDOM.
CHAPTER XXI.
RECONSTRUCTION--MISCONSTRUCTION. 1865-1875.
The War over, Peace restored, and the Nation cleansed of a
Plague.--slavery gives Place to a Long Train of Events.--Unsettled
Condition of Affairs at the South.--The Absence of Legal Civil
Government necessitates the Establishment of Provisional Military
Government.--An Act establishing a Bureau for Refugees and
Abandoned Lands.--Congressional Methods for the Reconstruction of
the South.--Gen. U. S. Grant carries these States in 1868 and
1872.--Both Branches of the Legislatures in all the Southern States
contain Negro Members.--The Errors of Reconstruction chargeable to
both Sections of the Country 377
CHAPTER XXII.
THE RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION.
The Apparent Idleness of the Negro Sporadic rather than Generic.--He
quietly settles down to Work.--The Government makes Ample
Provisions for his Educational and Social Improvement.--The
Marvellous Progress made by the People of the South in
Education.--Earliest School for Freedmen at Fortress Monroe in
1861.--The Richmond Institute for Colored Youth.--The Unlimited

Desire of the Negroes to obtain an Education.--General Order
organizing a "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands."--Gen. O. O. Howard appointed Commissioner of the
Bureau.--Report of all the Receipts and Expenditures of the Freedman's
Bureau from 1865-1867.--An Act Incorporating the Freedman's
Savings Bank and Trust Company.--The Business of the Company as
shown from 1866-1871.--Financial Statement by the Trustees for
1872.--Failure of the Bank.--The Social and Financial Condition of the
Colored People in the South.--The Negro rarely receives Justice in
Southern Courts.--Treatment of Negroes as Convicts in Southern
Prisons.--Increase of the Colored People from 1790-1880.--Negroes
susceptible of the Highest Civilization 384
CHAPTER XXIII.
REPRESENTATIVE COLORED MEN.
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.--The Legal Destruction of
Slavery and a Constitutional Prohibition.--Fifteenth Amendment
granting Manhood Suffrage to the American Negro.--President Grant's
Special Message upon the Subject.--Universal Rejoicing among the
Colored People.--The Negro in the United States Senate and House of
Representatives.--The Negro in the Diplomatic Service of the
Country.--Frederick Douglass--His Birth, Enslavement, Escape to the
North, and Life as a Freeman.--Becomes an Anti-slavery Orator.--Goes
to Great Britain.--Returns to America.--Establishes the "North
Star."--His Eloquence, Influence, and Brilliant Career.--Richard
Theodore Greener.--His Early Life, Education, and Successful Literary
Career.--John P. Green.--His Early Struggles to obtain an
Education.--A Successful Orator, Lawyer, and Useful
Legislator.--Other Representative Colored Men.--Representative
Colored Women 419
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Its Origin, Growth, Organization, and Excellent Influence.--Its
Publishing House, Periodicals, and Papers.--Its Numerical and
Financial Strength.--Its Missionary and Educational
Spirit.--Wilberforce University 452
CHAPTER XXV.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Founding of the M. E. Church of America in 1768.--Negro