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| Introduction | xv |
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| I |
| TENNESSEE |
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| Election and Policy of Lincoln | 1 |
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| East Tennessee | 3 |
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| Secession | 8 |
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| Federal Victories | 10 |
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| A Military Governor | 11 |
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| Origin of Military Governors in the United States | 12 |
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| Measures of Governor Johnson | 17 |
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| Negro Troops | 20 |
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| Nashville Convention of 1863 | 21 |
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| Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | 23 |
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| Steps to Restoration | 27 |
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| Nashville Convention of 1865 | 30 |
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| Election of William G. Brownlow | 32 |
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| Nomination of Lincoln and Johnson | 32 |
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| Presidential Election in Tennessee | 34 |
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| II |
| LOUISIANA |
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| Popularity of Secession | 36 |
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| Financial Embarrassment | 37 |
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| Capture of New Orleans | 38 |
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| Lincoln’s Advice | 38 |
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| General Shepley appointed Military Governor | 39 |
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| Election of Representatives to Congress | 45 |
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| Division among Unionists | 47 |
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| Military Operations | 49 |
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| Lincoln Urges Reconstruction | 51 |
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| Political Activity among Loyalists | 53 |
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| Title of Louisiana Claimants | 58 |
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| Opposition to General Banks | 61 |
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| Plan of Reconstruction proposed | 66 |
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| Election of 1864 | 70 |
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| Inauguration of Civil Government | 72 |
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| Lincoln’s Letter on Negro Suffrage | 73 |
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| Constitutional Convention | 75 |
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| Congressional Election | 76 |
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| III |
| ARKANSAS |
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| Indifference to Secession | 77 |
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| The Fall of Sumter | 78 |
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| Seizure of Little Rock | 79 |
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| Military Matters | 79 |
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| Threat of Seceding from Secession | 472 |
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| Mississippi Legislation relative to Freedmen | 475 |
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| Southern Reaction | 482 |
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| The President’s Change of Opinion | 487 |
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| Examination of Lincoln’s Plan | 491 |
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| APPENDIX A |
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| Thirty-Seventh Congress | 499 |
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| APPENDIX B |
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| Thirty-Eighth Congress | 502 |
