MEMORIAL DAY AND DECORATION DAY. CONFEDERATE SOCIETIES
Peculiar interest attaches to the inauguration of Memorial Day in
Richmond, in 1866, when Northerners, watching Southerners cover the graves
of their dead with flowers, went afterwards and did likewise, thus
borrowing of us their "Decoration Day" and with it a custom we gladly
share with them.[31] In Hollywood and Oakwood slept some 36,000 Southern
soldiers, representing every Confederate State. On April 19, Oakwood
Memorial Association "was founded by a little band in the old Third
Presbyterian Church, after prayer by Rev. Dr. Proctor." The morning of May
10 a crowd gathered in St. John's Church,[32] and after simple exercises
led by Dr. Price and Dr. Norwood, "the procession, numbering five hundred
people, walking two and two, their arms loaded with spring's sweetest
flowers, walked out to Oakwood" and strewed with these the Confederate
graves. May 3, the Hollywood Memorial Association was formed, and May 31
was its first Memorial Day. The day before, an extraordinary procession
wended its way to the cemetery.
The young men of Richmond, the flower of the city, marched to Hollywood,
armed with picks and spades, and numbering in their long line, moving with
the swing of regulars, remnants of famous companies, whose gallantry had
made them shining marks on many a desperate battlefield. "It was a
striking scene," wrote a witness, "as the long line filed by, not as in
days of yore when attired in gray and bearing the glittering muskets, they
were wont to step to the strains of martial music while the Stars and Bars
of the young Republic floated above them; but in citizens' garbs, bearing
the peaceful implements of agriculture, performing a pilgrimage to the
shrine of departed valour." It was symbolic. The South sought to honour
her past in peaceful ways, and to repair by patient industry the ravages
of war, wielding cheerfully weapons of progress to which her hands were as
yet unaccustomed. As the soldier-citizens marched along, people old and
young, by ones and twos and threes, or in organised bodies, fell into the
ever-lengthening line. At the cemetery, the pick-and-spade bearers were
divided into squads and companies, and under the direction of commanders,
worked all day, raking off rubbish, rounding up graves, planting
head-boards and otherwise bringing about order. Old men and little boys
helped. Negroes faithful to the memory of dead friends and owners were
there, busy as the whites in love's labour. Several men in Federal uniform
lent brotherly hands. When the sun went down the place was transformed.
That first fair Memorial Day looked as though it were both Sabbath and
Saints' Day. Over or on doors of business houses was the legend, garlanded
with flowers or framed in mourning drapery: "Closed in Honour of the
Confederate Dead." Federal soldiers walking the quiet streets would pause
and study these symbols of grief and reverence. Carloads of flowers
poured into the city. Every part of the South in touch with Richmond by
rail or wagon sent contribution. Grace Church was a floral depot; maids,
matrons and children met there early to weave blossoms and greenery into
stars, crosses, crowns and flags--their beloved Southern cross. Vehicles
lent by express and hotel companies formed floral caravanseries moving
towards the cemetery.
[Illustration: MRS. REBECCA CALHOUN PICKENS BACON
Daughter of Francis W. Pickens, the "Secession Governor" of South
Carolina: organizer of the D. A. R. in her state.]
Then, another procession wound its way to Hollywood, the military
companies and the populace, flower-laden, and a long, long line of
children, many orphans. There were few or no carriages. The people had
none. Old and young walked. The soldiers' section was soon like one great
garden of roses white and red; of gleaming lilies and magnolias; of all
things sweet-scented, gay and beautiful. Scattered here and there like
forget-me-nots over many a gallant sleeper was the blue badge in ribbon or
blossom of the Richmond Blues. Thousands visited the green hillside where
General Jeb Stuart lay, a simple wooden board marking the spot; his grave
was a mound of flowers. From an improvised niche of evergreens,
Valentine's life-like bust of the gay chevalier smiled upon old friends.
No hero, great or lowly, was forgotten. What a tale of broken hearts and
desolate homes far away the many graves told! Here had the Texas Ranger
ended his march; here had brave lads from the Land of Flowers and all the
States intervening bivouacked for a long, long night, from whose slumbers
no bugle might wake them. What women and children standing in lonely
doorways, hands shading their eyes, watched for the coming of these marked
"Unknown"!
Little Joe Davis' lonely grave was a shrine on which children heaped
offerings as they marched past in procession, each dropping a flower,
until one must thrust flowers aside to read the inscriptions that make of
that tiny tomb a mile-stone in American history--"Joseph, Son of our
Beloved President, Jefferson Davis," "Erected by the little boys and girls
of the Southern Capital." As blossoms fell, the hearts of the
flower-strewers beat tenderly for little Joe's father, then the Prisoner
of Fortress Monroe, and for his troubled mother and her living children.
In freedom to honour the Confederate dead by public parade, Virginia was
more fortunate than North Carolina. In Raleigh, the people were not
allowed to march in procession to the cemetery for five long years. Yet,
even so, the old North State faithfully observed the custom of decorating
her graves at fixed seasons, the people going out to the cemetery by twos
and threes. Indeed, the claim has been made that Dixie's first Memorial
Day was observed in Raleigh rather than in Richmond, and the story of it
is too sad for telling. March 12, 1866, Mrs. Mary Williams wrote the
"Columbus Times," of Georgia, a letter, from which I quote: "The ladies
are engaged in ornamenting and improving that portion of the city cemetery
sacred to the memory of our gallant Confederate dead.... We beg the
assistance of the press and the ladies throughout the South to aid us in
the effort to set apart a certain day to be observed, from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, and to be handed down through time as a religious custom
of the South, in wreathing the graves of our martyred dead with flowers."
All our cities, towns and hamlets shared in the honour of originating
Memorial Day, for, throughout the fair land of Dixie, soon as flowers
began to bloom, her people began to cover graves with them; and the North
did likewise.
In reading the recently published "History of the Confederated Memorial
Associations of the South," I am newly impressed with the devotion of
Southern women, their promptness, energy and resourcefulness in gathering
from hillside and valley their scattered dead and providing marked and
sheltered sepulture and monuments when there was so little money in their
land. I am impressed, too, with the utter lack of sectional bitterness in
this volume, which consists chiefly of unpretentious reports of work done.
Here and there is a word of grateful acknowledgment to former foes for aid
rendered. The simple records throb with a deep human interest to which the
heart of the world might make response.
At a meeting of the Atlanta Memorial Association, May 7, 1897, Mrs.
Clement A. Evans offered a resolution providing for concert of action
among State Associations on questions relating to objects and purposes in
common. Before long, this movement was absorbed in a larger. One of the
latest formed local associations was at Fayetteville, Arkansas, where
war's end found "homes in ashes, farms waste places" and "every foot of
soil, marked by contest, red with blood"; six long years of care and toil
passed before the women found time for organised work. Yet from this body,
not large in numbers nor rich in treasury, sprang the measures--Miss
Garside (afterwards Mrs. Welch) suggesting--which resulted in the
organisation, May 30, 1900, in the Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky, of
the Confederated Southern Memorial Associations with Mrs. W. J. Behan, of
New Orleans, President. In 1903, Mrs. Behan, in the name of the order,
thanked Senator Foraker of Ohio for bringing before Congress a bill for an
appropriation for marking Confederate graves in the North, a bill Congress
passed without delay.
As Ladies' Memorial Associations developed out of the war relief
societies, so the United Daughters of the Confederacy grew out of
Memorial Associations and Ladies' Auxiliaries to the United Confederate
Veterans. Immediate initiative came from "Mother Goodlett," of Nashville,
Tennessee, seconded by Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Savannah, the "Nashville
American" aiding the movement by giving it great publicity; the U. D. C.
was organized at Nashville in the fall of 1894. Of the United Confederate
Veterans, a member of the Association tells me: "The Ku Klux--not the
counterfeit, but the real Ku Klux working under the code of Forrest--was
the Confederate soldier protecting his home and fireside in the only way
possible to him. General Forrest disbanded the order; then, for purely
memorial, historical, benevolent and social purposes, Confederate Veteran
Camps came into existence, springing up here and there without concert of
action; presently they united," the federation being effected in New
Orleans, June 16, 1889, by representatives of about fifty camps, General
John B. Gordon in command. There are now some 1,600 camps with 30,000
members. Of about 300,000 Confederates at the end of the war, this 30,000
is left--"the thin, gray line."
When our veterans have gone North a-visiting, the North has been unsparing
in honour and hospitality. Our old gray-jackets give some illustrations
like this. Two, walking into a Boston fruit store, handed the dealer a
five-dollar bill to be changed in payment of purchases, and received it
back with the words: "It cannot pass here." A veteran laid down silver.
"That is no good." Concerned lest all his money be counterfeit, the
gray-jacket said to his comrade: "May be you have some good money." The
comrade's wealth was refused; but in opening his purse, he revealed a
Confederate note. "Now," said the smiling storekeeper, "if I could only
change that into the same kind of money, it would pass. That's the only
good money in Boston today."
The object and influence of these Confederate orders are primarily
"memorial and historical"; they occasionally transcend these--as when, for
instance, a few years ago, U. C. V. camps passed resolutions condemning
lynching. Their tendency is the reverse of keeping bitter sectional
feeling alive. It is their duty and office to see to it that new
generations shall not look upon Southern forefathers as "traitors," but as
good men and true who fought valiantly for conscience's sake, even as did
the good men and true of the North. While the Daughters of the American
Revolution, a larger and richer body, are worthily engaged in rescuing
Revolutionary history from oblivion, it is the no less patriotic care of
the Confederate orders, whose members are active in Revolutionary work
also, to preserve to the future landmarks and truths about the War of
Secession. Upon Memorial Hall, New Orleans, the Confederate relic rooms at
Columbia and Charleston; the "White House," Montgomery; the Mortuary
Chapel, "Old Blandford," Petersburg; the Confederate Museum, Richmond;
other relic rooms; and monuments and tablets scattered throughout the
South; the work of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society; the Battle
Abbey to be erected in Richmond for reception of historic treasures;--upon
these must American historians rely for records of facts and for object
lessons in relics that would have been lost but for the patient and
faithful endeavours of these orders.
Mrs. Joseph Thompson, in welcoming the Daughters of the American
Revolution to Atlanta during the Exposition of 1895, commended in the name
of the South, the "broadening and nationalising influence" of the order.
To no other one agency harmonising the sections does our country owe more
than to patriotic societies. In 1866, Northern and Southern women found
their first bond of reunion in the Mount Vernon Association, which began
in 1853, as a Southern movement, when the home and tomb of Washington were
for sale and Ann Pamela Cunningham, of South Carolina, called upon
America's women to save Mount Vernon, won Edward Everett to lecture for
the cause, coaxed legislators, congressmen and John Washington to terms,
and rested not until Mount Vernon belonged to the Nation; during the war
it was the one spot where men of both armies met as brothers, stacking
arms without the gates; Miss Cunningham held her regency, and Mrs. Eve, of
Georgia, Mme. Le Vert and the other Southern Vice Regents continued on the
Board with women of the North. In 1889, when the tomb of Washington's
mother was advertised for sale, Margaret Hetzel, of Virginia, appealed
successfully through the "Washington Post" to her countrywomen to save it
to the Nation. The founders, in 1890, of the Daughters of the American
Revolution were Eugenia Washington of Virginia, Mary Desha of Kentucky,
Ellen Hardin Walworth of Virginia and Kentucky ancestry; a most active
officer was Mary Virginia Ellett Cabell, of Virginia. The First Regent of
the New York City Chapter was a Virginian, Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. Flora
Adams Darling, widow of a Confederate officer, had a large hand in
originating the order and founded that of the Daughters of the Revolution
and the Daughters of the United States, 1812. The daughter of the
Secession Governor of South Carolina, Mrs. Rebecca Calhoun Pickens Bacon,
started the D. A. R. in her State, delivering seven flourishing chapters
to the National society. The daughter of General Cook, C. S. A., Mrs.
Lawson Peel, of Atlanta, is a power in D. A. R. work. The present
National Regent, Mrs. Donald McLean, is a Marylander and, therefore, a
Southerner, as Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson, one of her predecessors, avowed
herself to be in part if her Kentucky and Virginia ancestry counted. In no
movement of patriotism, in no measures promoting good feeling, has the
South been unrepresented.
[Illustration: MRS. ROGER A PRYOR]
"Mary, when I die, bury me in my Confederate uniform. I want to rise a
Confederate." So said to his wife Dr. Hunter Maguire, the great
Stonewall's Surgeon-in-Chief, a short time before his death. He was no
less true to the living Union because he was faithful to the dead
Confederacy. Visitors used to love to see General Lee at the Finals of
Washington College in his full suit of Confederate gray; it became him to
wear it in the midst of the draped flags and stacked arms, for while he
was teaching our young men to love our united country and to reverence the
Stars and Stripes, he did not want them to fail in reverence to the past.
None can want us so to fail. Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, President of
the U. D. C., says in the "Confederate Veteran": "Wherever there is a
chapter North or West, our Northern friends are so kind and help so much
that it brings us closer together as one people."
The thought of her who was "Daughter of the Confederacy" is inseparable
from my text. One afternoon Matoaca and I called on Miss Mason at her
quaint old house in Georgetown, D. C., a place of pilgrimage for patriotic
Southerners. We sat on the little back porch which is on a level with Miss
Emily's flower-garden, and she gave us tea in little old-fashioned cups,
pouring it out of a little old-fashioned silver tea-pot that sat on a
little old-fashioned table. She and Matoaca fell to talking about Mr.
Davis.
"I shall never forget him as I saw him first," said Miss Emily, "a young
lieutenant in the United States Army, straight as an arrow, handsome and
elegant. It was at the Governor's Mansion in Detroit; my young brother was
Governor of Michigan, the State's first Executive; Lieutenant Davis was
our guest; the Black Hawk War, in which he had greatly distinguished
himself, was just ended, and he was bringing Black Hawk through the
country. I was much impressed with the young Lieutenant. I watched his
career with interest. I met him again when he was a member of President
Pierce's Cabinet. He made a very able Secretary of War.
"Strange how events turn, that it should have been Mr. Davis who sent
General McClellan (then Colonel) and General Lee (then Colonel) to the
Crimea to study the art of war as practised by the Russians. General
McClellan's son, now Mayor of New York, has said that his father had ample
opportunity to form unbiassed opinion of the Secretary, as he spent much
time in Washington before and after his mission to Russia and was in close
touch with Mr. Davis. He quoted his father as saying: 'Colonel Davis was a
man of extraordinary ability. As an executive officer, he was remarkable.
He was the best Secretary of War--and I use _best_ in its widest sense--I
ever had anything to do with.'"
"I like 'Little Mac' for saying that and his son for repeating it. 'Little
Mac' fought us like a gentleman. When his son runs for the Presidency
perhaps I shall urge everybody to vote for him," said Matoaca.
"Unless a Southerner runs," I suggested.
"Alas! When will a Southerner be President of the United States? I heard
Mr. Davis make his famous speech bidding farewell to the Senate when
Mississippi seceded. It was the most eloquent thing I ever listened to!
All the women--and even men--were in tears. Senators went up to him and
embraced him. I saw Mr. Davis in Richmond as President of the Confederacy.
I saw him in prison; His Eminence, the Cardinal, secured me permission. He
was very thin and feeble, but he rose in his old graceful manner and
offered me his seat, a little wooden box beside his bed, a small iron one.
The eyes of the guard were on us all the time. General Miles came and
looked in. I asked Mr. Davis if I could do anything for him. He said he
would like some reading matter. I had had some newspapers, but had not
been permitted to bring them in. I was allowed to remain only a few
moments.
"I next saw him in Paris. I am so glad to have that memory of him. So many
Southerners came abroad in those days. During reconstruction the
procession seemed endless! While in Rome I introduced so many Southerners
to Pope Pius IX. that His Holiness used to call me '_L'Ambassadrice du
Sud_.' Mr. Davis was much fêted in France, as he had been in England.
While he was at Mr. Mann's in Chantilly, Judah P. Benjamin came from
London to see him. Mr. Benjamin was delightful company. I was at Mr.
Charles Carroll's when Mr. Davis was entertained there. I recall one
dinner when the Southern colony flocked around him in full force and
played a game on him. You know of his wonderful memory and wide reading.
We laid our heads together before he came in and studied up puzzling
quotations to trip him. But the instant one of us would spring couplet,
quatrain or epigram on him, he would answer with the author. He perceived
our friendly conspiracy and entered merrily into the spirit of it. I alone
tripped him--with something I had read in early childhood. I am glad to
have this happy memory of Mr. Davis. Otherwise I should always be seeing
him as he looked in prison."
Mr. and Mrs. Davis came to Paris for their young daughter, Winnie, who was
under Miss Emily's care. They had left her some years before at school in
Carlsruhe. Knowing in the early part of 1881 that Miss Mason was
travelling in Germany, they wrote her to bring Winnie to Paris, where the
girl was to abide until their arrival, studying music and acquiring
Parisian graces. When Miss Mason called at Carlsruhe, Winnie rushed into
her arms joyously: "I am so glad," she cried, "to see someone from home!"
She had many questions to ask; no sooner were they alone in their railway
compartment than Winnie turned to Miss Mason: "At last I see a Southern
woman! Now I can learn all that happened to my parents just after the war,
when I was a baby. Miss Em, what did Papa do just after the war--just
after Richmond fell? What happened to my papa then?" Miss Emily caught her
breath! "Winnie, what your papa did not think best you should know, I must
decline to tell you. You will soon see him in France." Winnie took small
interest in acquiring Parisian graces. "Miss Em, what are papa's favourite
songs?" Miss Mason sought faithfully to turn her attention to _chansons_
of the day and to operatic airs in vogue. "But I am only going to sing to
papa. I am going to the plantation--to Beauvoir. How shall I need to sing
opera airs there? Tell me, dear Miss Em, the songs my father loves!"
"When I met her father," Miss Mason says, "I ventured to question him
concerning Winnie's ignorance of his prison life, expressing surprise that
he had not claimed the sympathy of his child. 'I was unwilling to
prejudice her,' he said, 'against the country to which she is now
returning and which must be hers. I thought that but justice to the child.
I want her to love her country.'"
[Illustration: THE DAUGHTER OF THE CONFEDERACY
Winnie (Varina Anne), youngest child of Jefferson Davis; born in Richmond,
Va., June 27, 1864, and died at Narragansett Pier, R. I., September 18,
1895. General John B. Gordon gave her the above title by which she was
known.]
Years later, in Georgia, Veterans gathered to hear her father speak,
greeted Winnie's appearance with ringing cheers. General John B. Gordon,
placing his hands on her shoulders as he drew her forward, said:
"Comrades! here is our daughter, the Daughter of the Confederacy!" She
lived much in the North and died there. An escort from the Grand Army of
the Republic bore her remains from the hotel at Narragansett Pier to the
railway station; in New York, a Guard of Honour from the Confederate
Veterans and the Southern Society received her and brought her to
Richmond, and Richmond took her own. North, South, East and West sent
flowers to deck the bier of the Daughter of the Confederacy, and the North
said: "Let us be brothers today in grief as we were only yesterday
brothers-in-arms at Santiago."
Men in blue followed Gordon, Fitzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler to their graves;
Joe Johnston and Buckner were Grant's pall-bearers. Our dead bind us
together. The voices of Lee, our Beloved, Davis, our Martyr, Stephens, our
Peacemaker, Grady, our Orator, of Hampton, Gordon and all their noble
fellowship, have spoken for true Unionism; blending with theirs is the
voice of Grant, in his last hours at McGregor, the voice of McKinley in
Atlanta, the voice of Abraham Lincoln, as, just before his martyrdom, he
stood pityingly amid the ruins of Richmond.
When President McKinley declared that the Confederate as well as the
Federal dead should be the Nation's care, he said the right word to "fire
the Southern heart," albeit our women were not ready to yield to the
government their holy office. The name of Charles Francis Adams, of
Massachusetts, is a household word in the South because of his tributes to
Lee when Virginia thought to place Lee's statue in Washington. The names
of Col. W. H. Knauss, of Columbus, and W. H. Harrison, of Cincinnati, and
of others of the North should be, for the pious pains they have taken to
honour our dead who rest in Northern soil. In Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago,
stands the first Confederate Monument erected in the North; the Grand Army
of the Republic, the Illinois National Guards, the City Troop, the Black
Hussars, took part with the Confederate Veterans in its dedication. After
Katie Cabell Currie, of Texas, and her aides had consecrated the historic
battery given by the Government, the Guards paid tribute by musket and
bugle to Americans who died prisoners at Camp Douglas. A sectional bond
exists in the National Park Military Commission, on which Confederate
Veterans serve with Grand Army men; General S. D. Lee, Commander-in-Chief
of the U. C. V., is Chairman of the Vicksburg board of which General Fred
Grant is a member. When Judge Wilson on behalf of Bates' Tennesseeans
presented the Confederate Monument at Shiloh to the Commission, General
Basil Duke accepted it in the name of the Nation.
When President Roosevelt and Congress sent Dixie's captured battle-flags
home, the Southern heart was fired anew. In all our history no more
impressive reception was given to a President than when on his recent
visit to Richmond, Mr. Roosevelt was conducted by a guard of Confederate
Veterans in gray uniforms to our historic Capitol Square. In other
Southern cities he found similar escort. Earlier, when he visited
Louisville, a Confederate guard attended him, General Basil W. Duke, who
followed Mr. Davis's fortunes so faithfully, being on conspicuous duty.
True to her past, the South is not living in it. A wonderful future is
before her. She is richer than was the whole United States at the
beginning of the War of Secession; in a quarter of a century her cotton
production has doubled, her manufactures quadrupled. In one decade, her
farm property increased in value twenty-six per cent, her manufacturing
output forty-seven; her farm products nearly one hundred. Her railroad and
banking interests give as strong indications of her vigorous new life.
Immigrants from East and West and North and over seas are seeking homes
within her borders. The South is no decadent land, but a land where "the
trees are hung with gold," a land of new orchards and vineyards and
market-gardens; of luscious berries and melons; of wheat and corn and
tobacco and much cattle and poultry; of tea-gardens; and rice and sugar
plantations and of fields white with cotton for the clothing of the
nations. She is the land of balm and bloom, of bird-songs, of the warm
hand and the open door.
I prefaced this book with words uttered by Jefferson Davis; I close with
words uttered by Theodore Roosevelt, in Richmond, which read like their
fulfilment:
"Great though the meed of praise which is due the South for the soldierly
valor her sons displayed during the four years of war, I think that even
greater praise is due for what her people have accomplished in the forty
years of peace which have followed.... For forty years the South has made
not merely a courageous but at times a desperate struggle. Now, the
teeming riches of mines and fields and factory attest the prosperity of
those who are all the stronger because of the trials and struggles through
which this prosperity has come. You stand loyally to your traditions and
memories; you stand also loyally for our great common country of today and
for our common flag."
THE END.
INDEX
INDEX.
Abbeville, S. C., 56, 58, 61, 84.
Abbott, Ernest H., 396.
Abrahams, Captain, 61.
Adam's Run, 346.
Adams, Charles Francis, 417.
Adams, Lucy, 306.
Adams, Rev. Mr., 362.
Adger, Mr. Robert, 201.
Africa, 197, 311, 394, 395.
African Church, Old, Richmond, 202, 232, 241.
Agricultural College of Florida, 308.
Agricultural College, South Carolina, 180.
Agricultural Land Scrip, 307-308.
Aiken, ex-Governor William, 85.
Alabama, 62, 63, 180, 301, 333, 387.
Alabama Room, Confederate Museum, 220.
Albany, N. Y., 101.
"Albany Evening Journal," 160.
Alcorn, Gov. James Lusk, 317.
Alexandria, Va., 34.
Allen, Gov. Henry Watkins, of La., 260.
Ames, Senator Adelbert, 244.
Anderson, S. C., 365, 377.
Anderson, General Joseph, 32.
Anderson, Mary (Mrs. Navarro), 111.
Anderson, General Robert, 79.
Andrews, E. B., 250.
Appleton, Maj. William, 85.
Appleton, William H., 304.
Appomattox, 113.
Arkansas, 276, 372, 409.
"Armies of the Potomac and the Cumberland," 115.
Armistead Burt House, Abbeville, S. C., 56, 84.
Arthur, Prince, 111, 244.
Astor House, 135.
Athens (Ga.), "Maid of," 109.
Atlanta, Ga., 3, 12, 93, 96, 190, 192, 411, 417.
"Atlanta Constitution," The, 387.
"Atlanta Journal," The, 387.
Atlanta Memorial Association, 409.
Atlantic Monthly, 250, 278.
Augusta, Ga., 58, 60, 85, 114, 219.
Aycock, Governor Charles B., N. C., 387.
Bacon, Mrs. Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, 412.
Ball, Washington, 170.
Baltimore, Md., 101.
Baltimore Soc. for Liberal Education, etc., 303.
Bankrupt Law, 174-5.
Bannister, Anne, 109.
Bannister, Molly, 109.
Bartlett, General William Francis, 112.
Bates' Tennesseeans, 418.
Battle Abbey, The, 411.
Battle for State-House, 353.
Bayard, Captain, 139-140, 144.
Bayne, Dr., of Norfolk, 255, 258.
"Bayonet House," The, 370.
Bayou la Fourche, 179.
Beauregarde, General Pierre G. T., 160.
Beckwith, Bishop John Watrus, Ga., 304.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 79, 89.
Behan, Mrs. W. J., 409.
Bellows, Henry W., 89.
Benevolent Land Commission, 354.
Benjamin, Judah P., 60, 415.
Bernard, Meade, 327.
Betts, Mrs., of Halifax, 192.
Black, Colonel, 370.
Black Hawk, 414.
Black and Tan Assemblies, 249, 253, 320, 335, 360, 387, 398.
Black's and White's (Blackstone), 191.
Blaine, Jas. G., 210.
Blair, General Francis P., 127, 128.
Bland, Aunt Sally, 327.
Bolling, Tabb, 109.
Bomford, Colonel, 370.
Booth, J. Wilkes, 82, 89, 104.
Boston, 22, 313, 314, 320, 359, 360, 384, 410.
Boston Light Infantry, 359.
Boswell, Thomas W., 226.
Botts, John Minor, 226.
Bowery, The, 312.
Brazil, 157;
Emperor of, 158.
Breckinridge, General John Cabell, 60, 83.
Brown, General Orlando, 232.
Brown, John, R. I., 197.
Brown, Julius, 58.
Brown, W. E., 307.
Brown, William Garrott, 250.
Brownlow's Machine, Tennessee Legislature, 124, 128.
Brunswick, Va., 326, 331.
Bryan, Mary E., 110.
Buckner, Milton, 362.
Buena Vista, 49.
Bullock, Gov. Rufus B., Ga., 293.
Bunker Hill Centennial, 359, 360.
Burgess, J. W., 250.
Burns, W. A., Dallas, Sarah, 142.
Burton, General, 237, 239.
Butler, General B. F., 110, 134, 377.
Butler, General M. C., 161, 360, 369.
Butts and tissue ballots, 289, 290.
Cabaniss, Betty, 109.
Cabaniss, Henry, 58.
Cabell, Mary Virginia Ellett, 412.
Calhoun, Andrew P., 180.
Calhoun, Mrs. Andrew P., 180.
Calhoun, John C., 49, 180.
Calhoun, Patrick, 180.
Calhoun, Mayor, of Atlanta, 3, 96.
Campbell, Captain Given, 60.
Campbell, Col. John Allen, 259.
Campbell, Judge John A., 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 63, 78, 91, 92,
132.
Campbell, Sir George, 170.
Camp Douglas, Chicago, 418.
Camp Grant, 123, 155.
Canada, 39, 135, 219, 253.
Canby, General Edward R., 63;
and Mrs. Canby, 108.
Candler, Gov. Allen D., Ga., 387.
Capers, Bishop William, 201.
Capital, Last of Confederacy, 47.
Cardoza, F. L., 360.
Carolina Hall, 365, 369, 370.
Carolinas, The, 214.
Carrington, Mr., 125.
Carroll, Mr. Charles, 415.
Carroll, Mr., 329, 330.
Cary, Colonel, 155.
Casserly, Senator Eugene, 243, 244.
Castle Thunder, 29.
Catawba Indians, 401.
Centennial, The, Philadelphia, 359.
Chamberlain, Daniel H., 358, 360, 364, 365, 368, 370, 371.
Chamberlain, Mrs. Daniel H., 357.
Chamblee, Canada, 135.
Charleston, S. C., 78, 85, 155, 182, 241, 330, 341, 344, 359, 361, 368.
Charleston "News-Courier," 387.
Charlotte, N. C., 56, 57, 83, 84.
Charlotte "Observer," 387.
Chase, C. T., 308.
Chase, Salmon P., and his daughter, Kate, 108.
Chattanooga, Tenn., 58.
Chesnut, Mrs. James, 110.
Chew, Miss, 303.
Chicago, Ills., 22, 101, 313, 399;
Dedication Confederate Monument, 418;
Black Hussars, City Troop, Confederate Veterans, Illinois National
Guards, Grand Army of the Republic, 418.
"Chicago Times," 211.
Chilton, General, 20.
Chimborazo Hospital, 16, 17, 229.
Chittenden, Mr. L. E., 89.
Christian Commission, The, 78.
Christmas, Washington, 33.
Chubbuck, Rev. F. E., 135.
Churches:
in _Alabama_, 133-135;
_Canada_, Chamblee, 135;
Niagara, St. Mark's, 135;
_Louisiana_, New Orleans, Christ Church and other churches, 134-135;
_Mississippi_, Vicksburg, 134;
_Missouri_, Lexington, 135;
_S. Carolina_, Charleston, St. Michael's, 363;
Zion Presbyterian, 201;
Columbia Trinity, 202;
Washington St. M. E., 4, 201;
Hampton plantation Chapel, 202;
Plowden Weston Chapel, 202;
_Virginia_, Richmond, Churches of, 9, 132;
Grace, 407;
Dr. Hoge's, 9;
Northern Methodist Society, 108;
Old African Church, 202;
St. John's, 405;
St. Paul's, 9, 130, 222.
Cincinnati, 306, 418.
"Cincinnati Commercial," The, 357.
Citadel Cadets, Charleston, 58.
City Point, Va., 32, 41.
Clarke, Gov. Charles, of Mississippi, 92, 93.
Clarke, Ellen Meade, 120.
Clarke, Captain H. M., 61, 62.
Clay, Clement C., 84, 85.
Clay, Mrs. Clement C., 85, 94, 110.
Clay, Henry, 49.
Clayton sisters, the, 110.
Cleaves, R. H., 360.
Clemson College, 181, 366.
Cleveland's inauguration, President, 286.
Cleveland, O., 101.
"Clyde," The, 102.
Cobb, Howell, 129.
Cocke, Nannie, 109.
Colfax (Schuyler), Vice-President, 244.
Colfax Riot, La., 333.
Colquhoun, A. R., 395.
Columbia, "The State," 387.
Columbia, S. C., 3-6, 12, 16, 19, 84, 141, 155, 160, 201, 266, 273, 278,
354, 365, 369, 396, 411.
Columbia University (N. Y.) Studies, 250.
Columbus, Ohio, 101, 400, 418.
"Columbus Times," Ga., 408.
Confederacy, United Daughters of the, 409-410.
Confederate Army, 1.
Confederate Memorial Literary Society, 411.
Confederate Museum, Richmond, Va., 60, 126, 225, 411.
Confederate relic rooms, 411.
Confederate Scrap-book, Mrs. Lizzie Cary Daniel's, 126.
"Confederate Veteran," The, 413.
Confederate Veterans, The United, 410, 418.
Confederated Memorial Associations of the South, 409.
Cooper, Dr. George E., 237.
Council, W. H., 402.
Courtney, Major John, 83.
Cowardin, of "The Dispatch," 234.
Cowles, Patty, 109.
Craven, Dr. John J., 221, 224.
Crittendon, Mrs., 182.
Crockett, Carpet-Bagger, 316.
Crozier, Calvin S., 140-141, 377, 378.
Crump, W., 226.
Cuba, 20.
Culpeper, Va., 186.
Cummings, Father John A., 128.
Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 412.
Currie, Katie Cabell, 418.
Curry, Dr. J. L. M., 286.
"Daddy Cain," 362.
Dahlgren's fleet, 78, 79.
Dana, Charles A., 41, 103, 131.
Daniel's Confederate Scrap-Book, Miss Lizzie Cary, 126.
Danville, Va., 47, 50, 52, 54, 55, 150, 378.
Darling, Flora Adams, 412.
Daughters of the American Revolution, 411, 412.
Daughters of the Confederacy, 411.
Daughters of the Revolution, 412.
"Daughter of the Confederacy, The," Winnie Davis, 413, 416-417.
Daughters of the United States, 1812, 412.
Davenport, Isaac, 226.
Davis, Maj. B. K., 135.
Davis, Jefferson, 9, 32-34, 38, 47-57, 59-63, 72, 83-85, 90-91, 94-95,
101-104, 130, 132, 202, 219, 223-225, 233, 237, 239, 240, 241,
243, 413-418, 419.
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, 57, 84, 102, 148, 159, 219, 220-222, 224-225,
229, 237, 408.
Davis, little Joe, 220, 407-8.
Davis, Winnie, 57, 95.
Davis, Williams T., 378.
Dawson, Judge M. L., 383.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, S. C., 355.
Decoration Day, 405.
Delaware Firemen, 231.
Dennis, General, 366, 369.
Dents, The, 113, 282.
Derwent, Va., 159, 219.
Desha, Mary, 412.
Devens, General Charles, 344.
Devens' Division, First Brigade, 24, 25.
Devereaux, 111.
De Witt, Surgeon, 363.
Dismal Swamp, 330.
"Dixie" (the song), 43, 63.
Dodge, Maj.-Gen., 135.
Douglas, Frederick, 396.
Drane, Mrs., 169, 170.
Drummond, John, 326, 330.
Du Bose, Dudley, 275.
Du Bose, Mrs., 94.
Duke, General Basil W., 418.
Duke's Camp, General Basil, 61.
Dunning, W. A., 250.
Educational Fund, N. C., 307.
Education, Mississippi's Department of, 308.
Egypt, 157.
Elder, W. H., Bishop, of Natchez, Miss., 134.
El Dorado, S. C., 341, 346.
Eliot, Professor C. W., of Harvard, 396.
Elliott, Speaker, 357, 358, 360.
Elliott, General Stephen, 156.
Ellis, Rev. Rufus, 89.
Ellyson, ex-Mayor J. Taylor, 205, 286.
Elzey, General, 57, 58.
Emory and Wesleyan Colleges, Ga., 304.
Ensor, Dr. J. F., 355.
Europe, 157.
Evans, Mrs. Clement A., 409.
Evans Wilson, Augusta, 110.
Evaugh, Mr., 361.
Eve, Mrs. Philoclea, 412.
Everett, Edward, 412.
Ewell, General, 85.
Expatriation, 157, 159.
Ezzard, Ella, 110.
Farmville, Va., 205.
Fauquier, Va., 212.
Faver, David, 57, 58.
Fayetteville, Ark., 409.
Federal Prisons, Confederates released from, 140.
Fifteenth Amendment, Grant signing, 282.
Fitz, Rev. Mr., 214.
Fleming, Walter A., 135, 250, 278.
Florida, Agricultural Land Scrip, 307-308.
Florida, 214, 301, 307, 391.
Florida, State House of, 316.
Florida, "Times-Union," Jacksonville, 387.
Foraker, Senator, 409.
Ford's Theatre, 82.
"Forefathers' Day," 359.
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 62, 275, 410.
Fort Lafayette, 134.
Fort Pulaski, 92.
Fortress Monroe, 92, 102, 103, 219, 222.
Fort Warren, 85.
Foss, Rev. A., 135.
Freedmen's Bureau, 143, 211, 353.
Freedmen's Saving Bank, 216.
Fullerton, General J. S., 213, 214, 215.
Fulton, Rev. Mr., 134.
Galt House, Louisville, Ky., 409.
Gamble's Hill, Richmond, 149.
Gambling parlours, 372.
Garner, James Wilford, 317.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 79, 304.
Garside, Miss (Mrs. Welch), 409.
Gary, General, 360.
Geddings, Dr., 182.
Geddings, Mrs. Postell, 182.
Georgia, 109, 120, 206, 269, 275, 292, 301, 307, 408, 412.
Georgia Military Institute Battalion, 58.
Georgetown, D. C., 413.
Gettysburg, 38.
Gibson, Eustace, 257, 258-9.
Gildersleeve, Dr. J. R., 16.
Gillem, General Alvan Cullem, 249, 260.
Gilmer, General Jerry (Jeremy Francis), 125.
Gillmore, General Quincy Adams, 79, 85, 378.
Girardeau, Rev. Dr., 201.
Glenrie, Rev. Mr., 202.
Godfrey, Rev. Dr., 336.
Goode, E. C., 387.
Goode, Eugenia, 110.
"Goodlett, Mother" (Mrs. M. C.), 410.
Goodrich, Rev. Dr., 134.
Goodwin, Mayor of Columbia, S. C., 4.
Gordon, General John B., 410, 417.
Grace Church, Richmond, 407.
Gracebridge, Mrs., 151.
Grady, Henry Woodfin, 417.
Graham, John M., 85.
Grand Army of the Republic, 405, 417, 418.
Grant, General Frederick Dent, 418.
Grant, General Ulysses S., 23, 40, 41, 50, 79-80, 82, 85, 90-92, 97,
113-114, 132, 160, 213, 215, 224, 260, 274, 282, 301, 308,
357-358, 365, 368, 371, 377, 417.
Grant, Mrs. Ulysses S., 82, 107, 113, 114, 357.
Gray, Helen, 134.
Greeley, Horace, 36, 225, 226, 240, 241, 242.
Greenbrier White Sulphur (Springs), The, 149, 174.
Greenleaf, Mrs., 135.
Greensboro, N. C., 55, 56, 61, 83.
Greenville, S. C., 378.
Gregory, Alice, 109.
Hahn, Governor Michael, 34.
Hale, Edward Everett, 89.
Hall, Rev. Dr. Charles H., 222-223.
Halleck, General Henry W., 91, 92, 114, 125, 127, 377.
Hamilton, Gov. A. J., Texas, 247.
Hamilton, "Handsome Tom," 58.
"Hampton Day," 360.
Hampton family freeing slaves, 182.
Hampton, Wade, 6, 129, 160-161, 346, 359, 360-361, 364-365, 368-369,
370-371, 417.
Hampton, Mrs. Wade, 160-161.
Hampton, Va., 181.
Hampton Roads Peace Commission, 33.
Hancock, General Winfield Scott, 260.
Harby, Mrs. Lee, 182.
Hardy, Sally, 109.
"Harper's Weekly," 12, 49.
Harrison, Burton, 57, 237.
Harrison, W. H., 418.
Haskell, Col. Alex. C., 366.
Haxall house, 112.
Haxall, Richard Barton, 226.
Hayes, President Rutherford B., 371.
Hayward, 232, 234.
"Hell Hole Swamp," 354.
Henderson, Mrs. Lizzie George, 413.
Henry, Patrick, 405.
Herbert, Hilary, 127, 142.
Hetzel, Margaret, 412.
Heyward, Gov. Duncan C., of S. C., 387.
Hill, Augusta, 110.
Hill, Mr., 185-187.
Hodges, of Princess Anne, 216, 257.
Hoge, Rev. Dr. Moses D., 9.
Holden, Gov. William Woods, N. C., 275, 307.
Hollywood, Richmond, 405, 406, 407.
Hollywood Memorial Association, 405.
Holmes, Professor, 361.
Honoré, Bertha (Mrs. Potter Palmer), 111.
Hood, General John B., 3, 60, 303.
Howard, General O. O., 216.
Howell, Miss Maggie, 57.
Hughes, Mrs. Sarah, 300.
Hull, Robert W., 93.
Hunkidory Club, The, 368.
Hunt, General, 363, 364.
Hunt, Mrs. Sallie Ward, 111.
Hunter, General, 377.
Hunter, R. M. T., 33, 91, 92.
Huntington, Dr. (Bishop) F. E., 89.
Hunton, General Eppa, 116, 283-284.
Huntsville, Ala., 135.
Illinois, 81, 393.
Illinois National Guards, 418.
Indian, The, 393-4, 400, 401.
Indianapolis, Ind., 101.
Ingalls, Senator John G., 391.
Iowa University Studies, 216.
Irvin, Charles E., 94.
Irwinsville, Ga., 95.
Jackson, D. K., 226.
James River, Va., 341.
Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, 399.
Jelks, Gov. W. D., 387.
Jewett, Mrs., Stony Creek, 183.
"John Sylvester," The, 237.
Johns, Annie E., 18.
Johns Hopkins U. Studies, 250.
Johnson, Andrew, 83, 84-85, 90, 101, 130, 132, 133, 213, 222, 224, 247,
248, 325.
Johnson, Captain, 265, 266.
Johnson, Reverdy, 135.
Johnston, Joseph E., 47, 53, 56, 57, 60-62, 80-81, 84, 96, 417.
Johnston, Mrs. Marmaduke, 169.
Jones, Freeman, 327, 329, 332.
Kaye, Colonel, 37.
Keatley, Colonel J. H., 3.
Keene, Laura, 82.
Keiley, Anthony M., 37.
Kellogg, Gov. W. P., La., 333.
Kentucky, 220, 300, 412.
Kilpatrick's troops, General H. J., 169.
King, Grace, 110.
King, Jule (Mrs. Henry Grady), 109.
King St., Charleston, 361.
Kirke's cut-throats, 275.
Knauss, Colonel W. H., 418.
Knights of the White Camelia, 268.
Knox, Bill, 331.
Kohn, Mr. August, 182.
Kohn, Mrs. August, 182.
Ku Klux, 259, 268, 269-272, 275-278, 318, 360, 379, 410.
La Fourche, 377.
Lancaster, Ohio, 306.
La Têche, 377.
Laurens and Edgefield, 365.
Lea, Captain, 277.
Leacock, Rev. Dr., 134-135.
Leacock sisters, The, 110.
Lee, General Fitzhugh, 171, 417.
Lee's mother (Anna Maria Mason), General Fitzhugh, 20.
Lee, General Robert E., 9, 43, 50, 67-68, 70-72, 89, 90-92, 97, 129,
130, 136, 159, 161, 174, 181, 303, 305, 413-414, 417.
Lee, Mrs. Robert E., 20, 47, 50, 70, 159, 181, 219, 303.
Lee's surrender, 50, 53, 62.
Lee, General Sidney Dill, 418.
Lee, General Rooney (W. H. F.), his sweetheart, 109.
Lee, Susan Pendleton, 197.
Leland, J. P., Mr., 348.
"Leslie's Weekly," 385.
Letcher, Gov. John, 35.
Lett, J. P., William, 326, 329, 331.
Le Vert, Mme. (Octavia Walton), 110, 412.
Lewis, Colonel, 241.
Lewis, Dr., 326, 327, 328, 330, 331.
Lexington, N. C., 169.
Lexington, Va., 159, 162.
Libby Prison, 20, 29, 91, 92.
Liberty Hall, A. H. Stephens' mansion, 93.
Lincoln, Abraham, 23, 29-43, 56, 57, 78, 79-89, 90, 91, 96-97, 101, 130,
132, 133, 247, 264, 282, 305, 377, 417.
Lincoln, Mrs. Abraham, 81, 107.
Lincoln, Robert, 80.
Lincoln, "Tad," 30, 31.
Lindsay, Lewis, 255, 256.
Little Rock, Ark., 372.
Logan, General John A., 405.
London, Bishop of, 134.
Longfellow's sister, Mrs. Greenleaf, 135.
Louisiana, 80, 204, 250, 260, 268, 276, 281, 307, 333, 371, 372.
Louisiana State Lottery, 372.
Louisville "Courier-Journal," 396.
Louisville, Ky., 111, 409, 418.
Lowndes Co., Miss., 318.
Loyal or Union League, 263-265, 273, 277-278, 326, 334.
Ls, The Four, 264.
Lynchburg, Va., 35.
Lyons, James, 226, 237.
Lyons, Judge, 15.
Lyons, W. H., 226.
McCaw, Dr. James B., 16, 17, 67, 113.
McCaw, William, 67-68.
McClellan, General George B., 303, 414.
McClellan, George B., Mayor of New York, 414.
McClellan, Mr., 347.
McClellanville, S. C., 347.
McCulloch, Hugh, 221.
McDonald, Senator Joseph Ewing, 290.
McFarland, W. H., 226.
McGiffen, 326, 327, 330, 331.
McGregor, Vance, 335, 337, 338.
McKinley, President William, 89, 338, 417.
McLaws, General Lafayette, 60.
McLean, Mrs. Donald, 413.
McPherson, General James B., 133, 134.
McVeigh, Dr., 238, 239.
McVeigh vs. Underwood, 238.
Mackey, E. W., Speaker, 365, 367, 368, 370.
Mackey, Rep. candidate, 289.
Mackey House, 366.
Macon, Ga., 85, 304.
Magill, Bishop, 18.
Magruder, General J. B., 62, 155, 160.
Maguire, Dr. Hunter, 113, 114.
Mahone, General William, 288.
Mallory, Colonel, 259.
Mallory, Stephen Russell, Sec. Navy, 60.
Manchester, Va., 30.
Mann's, Mr., in Chantilly, France, 415.
"Marching Through Georgia," 305-307.
"Marriage Order," The, 124-127, 128.
Marston, Mrs. Dr., 135.
Martin, Mr., of Tenn. Leg., 212.
Martin, Mrs. Henry, 361.
Martin, Rev. William, 4, 201, 356.
Martin, Isabella D., 160, 356.
Mason, Miss Emily V., 18, 159, 219, 303, 413-417.
Mason, Gov. Stevens Thomson, of Michigan, 414.
Massachusetts, 48, 150, 232, 233, 243, 244, 395-399, 417.
Matoaca, 11, 21-23, 42, 67-69, 77, 82, 108, 113, 123, 129, 147, 173, 413.
Maury, General Dabney Herndon, 62, 63.
Maury, Mr., 203.
Mayflower, The, 231.
Mayo, Mayor Joseph, 15, 16, 24, 91, 232.
Meade, General George G., 54, 114, 120, 378.
Meade, Julia, Mary and Marion, 109.
Meade, Mary, 111.
Means, Celina E., 274.
Mecklenburg, Va., 387.
Memminger, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G., 51.
"Memorial Associations of the South, History of the Confederated," 408.
Memorial Day, 405.
Memorial Hall, New Orleans, 411.
Meredith, Captain, 191.
Meredith, John A., 226.
Meredith, Judge, 15.
Meredith, Mrs., of Brunswick, 190.
Meridian, Miss., 63.
Mexico, 35, 49, 157, 221, 260.
Michigan, 414.
Miles, General Nelson A., 222, 223, 415.
Milledgeville, Ga., 209.
Minnegerode, Rev. Dr. Charles, 9, 18, 131, 222, 223.
Minor, Judge, 219, 220.
"Missionary Record," The, 362.
Mississippi, 62, 244, 247, 249, 268, 276, 290, 301, 308, 317, 395.
Mississippi, Bishop of, 319.
Mississippi, 134.
Missouri, 135.
Missouri, 127, 128, 135, 285.
Molineux, General Edward Leslie, 61.
Money, facts and incidents about, 51-52, 61-62, 77, 140, 143, 148, 149,
150, 155, 168, 175, 185, 186, 187, 188, 203, 212, 214, 229, 258,
265-266, 291-292, 293, 302, 304, 307, 317, 320, 326, 336-337,
344-345, 353, 355-356, 372, 409, 410, 411, 419.
Monroe Co., Miss., 317.
Montague, Gov. A. J., Va., 387.
Monterey, Mexico, 49.
Montgomery, Ala., The "White House," 411.
Montreal, Canada, 224.
Monumental, The, 108.
Mordecai, 111.
Morgan, John H. (his command), 61.
Morrisey, John, 254.
Morrison, Mrs. Edwin, 111.
Morrison, Prof. W. S., 181.
Morse, Samuel F. B., 135.
Mortimer, Judge, 334, 336.
Moses, Jr., Franklin J., 307, 351, 353, 355, 358.
Moses, Raphael, J., 61.
Mount Vernon, 412.
Mount Vernon Association, 111, 412.
Murray, Dr., 116.
Myers, Gustavus A., 226.
Nash, Beverly, 354, 355, 356.
"Nashville American," The, 410.
Nashville, Tenn., 410.
Nassau Island, 94.
Nathan, Charles, 158.
"Nation," The, 385.
National Park Military Commission, 418.
National Political Aid Society, 229, 233.
Newberry, S. C., 140-1, 377.
New England, 48, 210, 311.
New England Society, 359.
New Grenada, Central America, 37.
New Orleans, 3, 12, 110, 134-135, 158, 241, 268, 366, 369, 372, 377,
409, 410, 411.
Newspapers, 135.
New York, 22, 101, 135, 151, 263, 307, 312, 313, 371, 384, 393, 395.
New York Custom House, 89.
"New York Herald," The, 71, 104, 240, 349.
New York "News," 306.
New York, Old Guard of, 359, 361.
New York "Times," 210.
New York "Tribune," The, 48, 349, 350.
"New York World," The, 240.
Niagara, Canada, 135.
Nichols, Gov. Francis T., La., 371.
North American Review, 377, 385, 395.
North Anna River, 171.
North Carolina, 80, 96, 210, 247, 270, 271, 274, 307, 326, 330, 386, 408.
Norwood, Rev. Dr., 405.
Nunan, Captain, 209.
Oakwood, Richmond, 405.
Oakwood Memorial Association, 405.
Oakwoods, Chicago, 418.
Oath of Allegiance, The, 37-38, 70-71, 91-92, 124-125, 128.
Oath, The Test, 127, 128, 249, 259, 260, 325.
O'Connell, Father, 5.
O'Conor, Charles, New York, 224, 239.
Ohio, 409.
Old Bank, Washington, Ga., 56.
"Old Blanford," Petersburg, Va., 411.
Old Guard, of New York, 359.
Old Sweet Springs, Va., 149.
Orangeburg, S. C., 141.
Ord, General E. O. C., 41, 42, 69, 91, 92;
and Mrs. Ord, 112.
Orphan Asylum, Colored, 354.
Osband, General, 93.
Osborne, Betty and Jeannie, 109.
Ould, Judge, 126, 237, 239.
Ould, Mattie, 109.
"Outlook," The, 396, 398.
Page, Betty and Lucy, 109.
Page, Mrs., 169.
Pale Faces, 268.
Palmore's, Va., 159.
Paris, France, 415.
Parker, W. T., 377.
Parks, H. B., 402.
Parrish, John, 328, 330.
Patrick, General Marsena R., 21, 69, 92.
Patti, Adelina, 202.
Paul, D'Arcy, 111.
Payne, Lewis, 82, 104.
Peabody Fund, 286, 304.
Peel, Mrs. Lawson, 412.
Pendleton, General and Mrs., 162-163.
Pendleton Club, S. C., The, 360.
Penn, J. Garland, 402.
Penrose, Major, 30.
Perry, Gov. Benj. F., S. C., 143, 144, 260, 377, 378.
Petersburg, 37, 40, 43, 108, 109, 129, 160, 205.
Petersburg "Index-Appeal," 160.
Peyster, Lieutenant de, 12.
Philadelphia, Pa., 101, 163, 263, 359.
"Philadelphia Inquirer," 221.
Philippines, 20, 306.
Phillips, Wendell, 102.
"Picayune," The, 110.
Pickens County men, 360.
Pickett, Gen. Geo. E., 38.
Pierce's Cabinet, President, 414.
Pierce, Paul Skeels, 216.
Pierpont, Gov. F. H., 34, 92, 241, 255;
and Mrs. Pierpont, 108.
Pike, Mr. J. S., of Maine, 371.
Pinckney, Captain Thomas, 341, 343-347, 349.
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (of the Revolution), 201, 342.
Pius IX., Pope, 415.
"Planting officials," The, 214.
Platt, Mrs. William H., 111.
Pocotaligo, S. C., 378.
Polk, Bishop Leonidas and Mrs., 179.
Polk, Dr. W. M., 179.
Polk, President James K., 48.
Poole, Maggie, 110.
Pope, General John, 301.
Pope, Mrs. Sallie Ewing, 111.
Poppenheim, Miss M. B., 182.
Porter, Admiral David D., 30, 40, 41.
Portridge, Sophia, 111.
Potter, Bishop Horatio, 135.
Potter, Mrs. James Brown, 110.
Powell, Dr., 330, 331.
Powhatan, Va., 129.
Prescott, Addie, 110.
Preston, Cobb, 335.
Preston, General William, 182.
Price, Rev. Dr., 405.
Prince Arthur, 111, 244.
Proctor, Rev. Dr., 405.
Pryor, Mrs. Roger A., 110, 412.
Raines, Mrs. L. H., 410.
Raleigh, N. C., 84, 114, 140, 275, 408.
Raleigh, Mr. Bennett's house near, 84.
Ralls, General, 95.
Randall, James R., 85.
Randolph, Bishop Alfred Magill, 205.
Randolph, Senator Theodore F., 290.
Randolph, Uncle, 12, 23, 35, 113, 133.
Raymond, Henry J., 31.
Raymond, Miss, 22.
Reagan, John H., 59.
Red Shirts, The, 360, 368.
Reed, William B., 224, 239.
Reid, Whitelaw, 349.
Revels, Hiram R., 243, 244.
Rhett, Mrs., 20.
Richardson, Mrs. Ida B., 110.
Richmond, Va., 3, 9-25, 37, 62-63, 69, 72, 91, 92, 109, 111, 123, 139,
150, 185, 187, 205, 229, 231, 240, 241, 255, 399, 405-408, 417-418.
Richmond Blues, The, 407.
Richmond College, 202.
Richmond Theatre, 107.
Richmond "Times-Dispatch," 25, 387.
Rifle Clubs, The, 360, 363, 364, 368, 370.
Riots:
Brunswick, 332-333;
Cowboy, 362;
Charleston, 241, 363;
Colfax, 333;
Ellenton, 349;
Hamburg, 362;
Little Rock, 371-372;
New Orleans, 241, 372;
Richmond, 229, 234, 241.
Ripley, General Edward H., 24-25, 131.
Robertson, Dr. and Mrs., 57, 59, 60;
Kate Joyner Robertson (Mrs. Faver), 59, 61;
Willie Robertson, 59.
Rockett's, 29.
Rollins, Misses, 356.
Rome, Italy, 415.
Roosevelt, President Theodore, 338, 418, 419.
Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, S. C., 140.
Rousseau, General, 135.
Roxmere, 334.
Ruger, General Thomas Howard, 365, 368, 370.
Ryland, Rev. Dr. Robert, 202-203.
Sage, B. F., 307.
Saint, Captain, 4th Iowa, 93.
St. John, General I. M., 59.
St. Michael's bells, 363.
Santo Domingo, 197.
Salisbury, N. C., 56.
Santee River, The, 341.
Savannah, Ga., 58, 135, 155, 410.
Savannah "News," The, 387.
Saxton, General and Mrs. Rufus, 119, 120;
General, 143.
Schell, Augustus, 226.
Schley, Mr., Augusta, Ga., 219.
Schofield's Code for Freedmen, 210.
Schofield, General J. M., 232, 234, 255, 259, 260, 325, 329, 379.
Scott, Gov. R. K., S. C., 281, 307, 351, 370.
Seaford, U. S. Marshal, 293.
Sea Islands, The, 79, 341.
Sears, Dr. Barnas, 304.
Selma, Ala., 78.
Seney (George Ingraham), benefactions, 304.
"Sentinel," The, 22.
Sepoy Massacres, 391.
Sergeant, Miss, of Atlanta, 304.
Sewanee Review, 250.
Seward, William H., 82, 378.
Sharkey, Gov. William L., Miss., 247.
Shea, George, 239.
Shepley, General George F., 11, 12, 22, 30, 31, 32, 36, 39, 41, 131.
Sheppard, J. C., 365.
"Sheridan's Ride," 305.
Sherman, General, 3-6, 16, 18, 37, 50-51, 57, 80, 81, 84, 96, 97, 115,
128, 132, 135, 182, 190, 202, 247, 281, 305, 326, 330, 371, 377.
Shiloh, National Park, 418.
Sibley, 333.
Simonton, Judge C. H., 287.
Simpson, Colonel R. W., 360.
Simpson, W. S., 366.
Sing Sing, N. Y., 278.
Sligo, Lord, 134.
Sloan, Captain, 125.
Slocomb, Mrs., 110.
Slocomb family, 110.
Smith, Gerrit, 226, 241, 242.
Smith, W. B. (author), 395.
Smith, Gov. William H., Ala., 333.
Smith, Gov. William, 34, 35, 92.
Smythe, Mrs. A. T., 182.
South Carolina, 4-6, 37, 54, 140, 143, 158, 160-161, 180, 192, 204, 206,
247, 250, 260, 265, 267, 271, 273, 276, 289, 317, 348, 359, 370,
371, 377, 412.
South Carolina Agricultural College, 180.
South Carolina, State University, 355.
"South Carolina Women in the Confederacy," 182.
Southern Ballot-Box, 281.
"Southern Cross," Hampton's cottage, 160.
Southern Educational Conference, 1905, 396.
"Southern Opinion," The, 305.
Southside Virginia, 399.
Spanish-American War, 312.
Spencer, C. B., 402.
Spencer's libels, Senator G. E., 333.
Spotswood, The, 108, 237.
Springfield, Ills., 101.
Stanton, Edwin M., 41-43, 51, 57, 80, 82, 90, 92, 96, 97, 132, 223, 224,
281.
"State," The Columbia, 387.
Steedman, General James Barrett, 213-215.
Stephens, Alexander H., 33, 55, 58, 93, 94, 95, 417.
Stephens, Judge Linton, 292-293.
Stephens, Lint, 58.
Stephens, Dr. Robert G., 163.
Stevens, Atherton H., 12, 16.
Stevens Mystery, Yanceyville, N. C., 274.
Stevens, Thaddeus, 242.
Stevenson, Mrs. Adlai E., 413.
Stewart, Hon. Charles, 142-143.
Stimson, William, 386.
Stoneman, General George, 260, 325.
Stoney, Captain, 156.
Storrs, Rev. Dr. Richard S., 79.
Stratton, Professor, 385.
Strong, Major George C., 134.
Stuart, J. E. B., 171, 407.
Sumner, Charles, 81.
Sumter's anniversary, 79.
Surratt, Mrs., 104.
Sutherlin, Major, 47, 48, 52, 53-55.
Sutherlin Mansion, 47, 48, 51, 52, 56.
Sutherlin, Mrs., 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53-56.
"Sun," The New York, 103.
Swayze, U. S. Commissioner, 293.
Taylor, Mrs. Thomas, 182.
Taylor, General Richard, 62, 63, 92.
Teller, Senator Henry Moore, 290.
Tennessee, 268, 418.
Tennesseeans, Bates', 418.
Terrell, Gov. Joseph M., of Ga., 387.
Texas, 62, 142, 160, 215, 247, 260, 350, 395, 418.
Texas Ranger, 407.
Thomas, James, 226.
Thomas, Judge, 32, 33, 34, 40, 41.
Thomas, William Hannibal, 385.
Thompson, Mrs. Joseph, 411.
Throckmorton, Gov. J. W., 215, 260.
Tidewater Virginia, 399.
Tillinghast, J. A., 395.
Tilton, Theodore, 79.
"Times-Democrat," The, New Orleans, 387.
Tissue Ballots, 288.
Titlow, Captain, 103.
Todd, Dr. Scott, 58.
Toombs, General Robert, 57, 59, 60, 61, 93.
Toombs, Mrs. Robert, 94, 143.
Tournaments, 167.
Traveller, 68, 109.
Trenholm, G. A., 60, 92.
Trent River Settlement, 214.
Trescot, W. H., 143.
Triplett, Mary, 109.
Trobriand, General Philippe Regis de, 372.
Trowbridge, Colonel, 141.
Tucker, John Randolph, 239.
Tulane University, 304.
Tupper, Rev. Dr., 60.
Turner, Henry G., 302.
Tuskegee, Ala., 181.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 214.
Underwood, Judge John C., 233, 239, 241, 242, 253.
Upton, General, 60, 93.
Urquhart, Captain David, 110.
Urquhart, Mrs. David, 110.
Urquhart, Cora (Mrs. James Brown Potter), 110.
Ursuline Convent, 4.
Valentine's, Stuart, 407.
Valliant, Theodosia Worthington, 111.
Van Alen, General, 42.
Vance, Betty, 111.
Vance, Gov. Zebulon B., N. Carolina, 96, 102.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 226.
Vanderbilt University, 304.
Van Lew, Miss, 108.
Vardaman, Gov., of Miss., 387.
Vest, Senator, 127.
Vicksburg, Miss., 128;
pastors of, 133, 134, 418.
Vincent, Mrs., and Lucy, 265-266.
Virginia, 34-35, 39, 41, 42, 71, 80, 115, 139, 161, 170, 214, 232,
260-269, 285, 305, 326, 341, 379, 387, 399, 408, 412.
Wade, Senator Benj. F., 90.
Walker, George, 172-173.
Walker, Gov. Gilbert C., Va., 331.
Walker-Wells Campaign, 316.
Walker, J. M., Mayor, of Danville, 53.
Wall, L. G., 327, 328.
Wallace House, The, 365, 370.
Wallace, Marshal, 363.
Wallace. W. H., Speaker, 365, 366, 367, 368.
Walworth, Ellen Hardin, 412.
Warmouth, Henry C., 281, 307.
Warwick, Abraham, 226.
Washington Artillery, N. O., 110.
Washington, Booker T., 402.
Washington, D. C., 33, 39, 41, 79, 81, 83, 91, 97, 101, 104, 113, 130,
185, 187, 221, 225, 234, 243, 248, 260, 281, 287, 316, 333, 337,
364, 371, 372, 417.
Washington, Ga., 57, 59, 60, 94.
Washington (and Lee) College, Lexington, Va., 159, 161, 413.
Washington and Lee Association, 303.
Washington, Eugenia, 412.
Washington, George, 170;
Statue of, 292;
tomb of, 412;
his mother's tomb, 412.
Washington, John, 412.
Washington, Colonel William, 360.
Washington Light Infantry, Charleston, 359.
Washington, Miss, of S. Carolina, 182.
"Washington Post," The, 412.
Watkins, Judge, 205.
Watkins Neighbourhood, 312.
Watkins, Mr. and Mrs., 313.
Webster, Daniel, 49.
Weems, Colonel, 60.
Weitzel, Godfrey, 16, 17, 20, 22-24, 36, 39-42, 107, 131-133, 377.
Welch, Mrs. (Miss Garside), 409.
Wellington, Mrs. 129.
Wells, Gov. Henry H., 329.
Welsh, A., 226.
West Point, N. Y., 20, 38, 48, 126.
West Virginia, 34.
W. Virginia University Studies, 250, 278.
Wharton, Captain, 69, 70.
Wheeler, General Joe, 94-95, 102, 417.
Wheeless, John F., 62.
Wherry, Col. W. M., 259.
"Whig," The, 24, 39, 41, 42, 107.
Whipper, W. J., 358, 360.
White, Mrs., of Brunswick, 191.
White Brotherhood, The, 268.
White House, The, Montgomery, Ala., 411.
White House, The Davis Mansion, Richmond, 29, 36, 60, 126, 219, 221, 411.
White House, The, Washington, D. C., 37, 43, 80, 282.
White League, 268.
White Rose, Order of the, 268.
Whitney, Eli, 197.
Wigfall, Louise (Mrs. Wright), 110.
Wilde, General, 143.
Williams, Mrs. David R., 110.
Williams, Mrs. Mary, 408.
Wilmer, Bishop, of Alabama, 133.
Wilmington, N. C., 193.
Wilson, General James H., 85.
Wilson, Judge S. F., 418.
Wilson, Senator Henry, 243, 244.
Wilson, Woodrow, 250.
Winfield, Miss, 243, 244.
Wingfield, Rev. J. H. L. (Bishop), 129.
Winnsboro, S. C., 6.
Wise, Captain George, 70, 71.
Wise, Henry A., 50, 71.
Wise, Lieutenant, 50.
Wood, Benjamin, 226.
Wood's house in Greensboro, Col., 56.
Woods, General William B., 133.
Wortham, Miss, 125.
Wright, General Horatio D., 52, 53, 54.
Wright, Mary (Mrs. Treadwell), 111.
Yulee, Senator D. L., 92.
Yulee, Mrs. D. L., 110.
Yankee Landon, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338.
Zola, 372.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Gentlemen of the old regime would say: "A woman's name should appear
in print but twice--when she marries and when she dies"; the "Society"
page of to-day was unknown to them. They objected to newspaper notoriety
for themselves, and were prone to sign pseudonyms to their newspaper
articles. Matoaca, loyal to her uncle's prejudices, requires that I print
him only by the name she gives him and the title, one which was
affectionately applied to him by many who were not his kin. To give his
real name in full would be to give hers.
[2] General Ripley, in "Confederate Column" of the "Times-Dispatch,"
Richmond, Virginia, May 29, 1904.
[3] In 1793, 1803, 1812-14, 1844-50, Northern States threatened to secede.
Of Massachusetts' last movement Mr. Davis said in Congress: "It is her
right." Nov. 1, Dec. 17, Feb. 23, 1860-61, the "New York Tribune" said:
"We insist on letting the Cotton States go in peace ... the right to
secede exists."
[4] For full statement, see Captain H. M. Clarke's paper in Southern Hist.
Society Paper, Vol. 9, pp. 542-556, and Paymaster John F. Whieless'
report, Vol. 10, 137.
[5] The account which I had from Colonel Randall at the home of Mr. John
M. Graham, Atlanta, Ga., in the spring of 1905, does not quite coincide
with that given by Mrs. Clay in "A Belle of the Fifties." In years
elapsing since the war, some confusion of facts in memory is to be
expected.
[6] Fac-simile of the order under which Mr. Davis was chained appears in
Charles H. Dana's "Recollections of the Civil War," p. 286. The hand that
wrote it, when Mr. Davis died, paid generous tribute to him in the "Sun,"
saying: "A majestic soul has passed."
[7] General Halleck to General Stanton (Richmond, April 28, 1865): "I
forward General Orders No. 4.... You will perceive from paragraph V, that
measures have been taken to prevent, as far as possible, the propagation
of legitimate rebels." Paragraph V: "No marriage license will be issued
until the parties desiring to be married take the oath of allegiance to
the United States; and no clergyman, magistrate, or other party authorized
by State laws to perform the marriage ceremony will officiate in such
capacity until himself and the parties contracting matrimony shall have
taken the prescribed oath of allegiance," all under pains of imprisonment,
etc.
[8] "Why Solid South," Hilary Herbert. To this book I owe a large debt for
information, as does every other present-day writer on reconstruction.
[9] An Englishman of Queen's College; the Bishop of London had sent him as
Chaplain to Lord Sligo, Governor of Jamaica, but at this time he was
Rector of Christ Church, New Orleans.
[10] "Civil War & Reconstruction in Alabama," W. L. Fleming.
[11] See Stewart on "Texas" in "Why Solid South," by Hilary Herbert and
others.
[12] A collection of records, sketches, etc., edited and published by Mrs.
Taylor, Mrs. Smythe, Mrs. Kohn, Miss Poppenheim and Miss Washington, of
that State. Owner, August Kohn, Columbia, S. C. For confirmation of first
chapter of this book, see same.
[13] Syphilitic diseases, from which under slavery negroes were nearly
exempt, combine with tuberculosis to undermine racial health.
[14] See Susan Pendleton Lee's "History of Virginia."
[15] Among Southerners assuring me that education is advancing negroes, I
may mention ex-Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond, and Judge Watkins, of
Farmville, who credit educated negro clergy with such moral improvement in
the race. Both gentlemen were deeply interested in the educational work at
Petersburg. Said Mayor Ellyson: "We take equal care in selecting teachers
for both races."
[16] Such laws were adopted after 1830 in Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina, when secret agents of the abolitionists were spreading
incendiary literature. It is a fact, though not generally understood, that
abolition extremists arrested several emancipation movements in the South;
whites dared not release to the guidance of fanatics a mass of
semi-savages in whose minds doctrines of insurrection had been sown. See
recent articles on Slavery in the "Confederate Veteran"; "The Gospel to
the Slaves"; "An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United
States; with an Historical Sketch of Slavery," by Thomas R. R. Cobb; and
Southern histories of the Southern States.
[17] See University of Iowa Studies, "Freedmen's Bureau," by Paul Skeels
Pierce.
[18] See "History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States," by E.
B. Andrews; "Reconstruction and the Constitution," by J. W. Burgess;
"Destruction and Reconstruction," by Richard Taylor; "History of the
American People; Reunion and Nationalism," by Woodrow Wilson; "A Political
Crime," by A. M. Gibson; "The Lower South" and "History of the United
States since the Civil War," by W. G. Brown; "Essays on the Civil War and
Reconstruction" and "Reconstruction, Political and Economic," by W. A.
Dunning; articles in "Atlantic Monthly" during 1901; Johns Hopkins
University Studies and Columbia University Studies; Walter L. Fleming's
"Documents Illustrative of the Reconstruction Period"; besides treating
every phase of the subject, these "Documents" give a full bibliography; "A
New South View of Reconstruction," Trent, "Sewanee Review," Jan., 1901;
and other magazine articles.
[19] Phelps' "Louisiana," Perry's "Provisional Governorship," "Why Solid
South," Hilary Herbert.
[20] This case was used by Celina E. Means in "Thirty-four Years." The
Stevens case is misused by Tourgee in "A Fool's Errand."
[21] See "Documents Illustrative of the Reconstruction Period," by Walter
L. Fleming, Professor of History, West Virginia University; also articles
in the "Atlantic Monthly."
[22] This mirror had been built into the wall when the house was erected
by the Captain's grandfather, General Thomas Pinckney, of the Revolution,
soon after his return from the Court of St. James, where he served as
United States Minister by Washington's appointment. It was Charles
Cotesworth, brother of this Thomas, who threw down the gage to France in
the famous words: "The United States has millions for defense but not one
cent for tribute!"
[23] See "Reconstruction in South Carolina," by John S. Reynolds, in the
Columbia "State."
[24] I think this was General Ruger or Colonel Black, but I let the name
stand as my informant gave it.
[25] See Sherman-Halleck correspondence in Sherman's "Memoirs" on "the
inevitable Sambo." Also, W. T. Parker, U. S. A., on "The Evolution of the
Negro Soldier," N. Amer. Rev., 1899. Lincoln disbanded the troops
organised by General Hunter.
[26] In Boston, 1676. I suppose this is the case meant as it rests on
court records. "The Nation," 1903, published letters showing four specific
cases from slavery's beginning to 1864; that just cited, one mentioned in
Miss Martineau's "Society in America"; one reported in "Leslie's Weekly,"
1864; one reported in a periodical not named. In the earliest days of
slavery, laws enacted against negro rape (the penalty was burning) seem to
show that the crime existed or that the Colonists feared it would exist.
The fact that during the War of Secession, Southern men left their
families in negro protection is proof conclusive that this tendency, if
inherent, had been civilised out of the race.
[27] For other reasons for rape than I have given see "The Negro; The
Southerner's Problem," by Thomas Nelson Page, p. 112, and "The American
Negro," by William Hannibal Thomas (negro), pp. 65, 176-7, 223.
[28] "The Negro in Africa and America," J. A. Tillinghast. On
miscegenation see "The Color Line," W. B. Smith; also A. R. Colquhoun, N.
Amer. Rev., May, 1903.
[29] Fakirs, taking advantage of the general racial weakness, are selling
"black skin removers," "hair straighteners," etc.
[30] See Council, Penn, and Spencer, "Voice of Missions" (H. B. Parks,
Ed.), Sept., Nov., Dec., 1905. See Booker T. Washington's "Up from
Slavery," "Character Building," "Future of the American Negro."
[31] "'Decoration Day,' a legal holiday. The custom of 'Memorial Day,' as
it is otherwise called, originated with the Southern States and was copied
scatteringly in Northern States. On May 5, 1868, General John A. Logan,
then Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued an order
appointing May 30."--Encyclopedia Americana.
[32] In this church, Patrick Henry said: "Give me liberty or give me
death!"