Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Table of Contents 7
4. I. Movement for a Loyal State Government, 1862–1864 9
5. II. Constitutional Convention and Elections of 1864 23
6. III. Civil Government Loyal to the United States, 1864–1868 44
7. IV. Preliminaries of Congressional Reconstruction 101
8. V. Administration of the State Government by the Military 127
9. VI. Political Reconstruction 154
10. VII. The Freedmen’s Bureau 182
11. VIII. The Constitutional Convention of 1868 217
12. IX. Ratification of the Constitution of 1868 248
13. X. Entrenchment of the Reconstruction Party 276
14. XI. Reconstruction in Education 313
15. XII. Reconstruction, Social and Economic 332
16. XIII. Discord in the Republican Party 373
17. XIV. Return of the Democrats to Power 402
18. Bibliography 442
19. Index 447