16. The Problem of Conservative Rule

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter III
2. Preface VII
3. Table of Contents XI
4. Book I. The Parting of the Ways
5. 1. The Evolution of a Slave-Holding Commonwealth 3
6. 2. The Last Years of the Ante-Bellum Régime 30
7. 3. Secession 47
8. 4. The Seizure of Federal Property and the Raising of Troops 69
9. 5. The Fort Pickens Truce 97
10. Book II. The Civil War
11. 6. The Beginning of Hostilities In Florida 125
12. 7. Federal Invasion 150
13. 8. Economic Adjustment to the War 175
14. 9. The Negro and the War 218
15. 10. Internal Opposition to the Confederacy: Unionists and Deserters 243
16. 11. The Olustee Campaign – 1864 268
17. 12. The Last Year’s Fighting 296
18. Book III. Political Reconstruction
19. 13. The End of the War 319
20. 14. Political Reorganization 346
21. 15. The Freedmen’s Bureau and Public Opinion 377
22. 16. The Problem of Conservative Rule 408
23. 17. The Beginning of Radical Reconstruction 438
24. 18. Registration and the Organization of Local Parties, 1867 463
25. 19. The Constitutional Convention or 1868 491
26. Book IV. Republican Rule
27. 20. The Inauguration of a Republican State Government 519
28. 21. Conflict Among Radicals – Two Governors of Florida 542
29. 22. The Outbreak of Lawlessness 557
30. 23. An Inquiry into the Causes of Lawlessness 587
31. 24. Party Politics to the Beginning of Republican Decline, and After 610
32. 25. The Record of Republican Rule 647
33. 26. The Election of 1876 687
34. 27. The Result of the Election of 1876 713
35. Bibliographical Note 739
36. Index 749