Aspect of the Country at Termination of the War--The Returned 310
Confederate Soldier--Carpetbaggers--Lincoln's Vow--His
Proclamation Concerning Confiscation of Slaves--How the Slaves
Were Legally Liberated--Lincoln Murdered--Johnson President--His
Thirst for Vengeance--"Treason" to Be Made Odious--Grant
Declared That the Paroles Must Not Be Violated--Cost of a Bill
of Dry Goods in Confederate Money in 1864--Leave Columbus for
Greenville, Miss.--Desolate Home--The Good Israelite--Return to
Columbus--I Go with Mrs. French to Mississippi--Traveling
Incognito a Failure--Journey to New York in 1865--Incidents of
My Mother and Child When They Went North--Home
Confiscated--Edward Cooper's Kind Act--No One Would Touch
Mother's Trunks--Copy of a Contract in 1865, Whereby I Obtained
Funds--People under Espionage at the North--Return to the
Plantation--Northern Plan to Terminate the War