22; of negroes, 12; of foreigners, 2. In most of the documents the psychological element is important, especially in the non-legal documents. Of the latter, about 64 are from what may be called the Southern point of view; 118 are from the opposite point of view, and 70 are more or less indifferent or impartial. These may be readily interpreted with proper allowance for the personal equation; to those who desire it, the secondary accounts referred to at the end of each Introduction will furnish the information necessary to construct the historical background; a few words of explanation are given in some of the introductory notes for the purpose of furnishing a clew to the point of view illustrated in that particular document. For assistance given me during the past six years while working on this collection I am indebted to many considerate friends, North and South, and for special favors to the following: Dr. Thomas M. Owen of the Alabama Department of Archives and History; President D. B. Purinton and Professor Waitman Barbe of West Virginia University; Hon. Dunbar Rowland of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Mr. Worthington C. Ford, Chief of the Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress; Mr. L. S. Boyd, of the library of the Inter-State Commerce Commission; the authorities of the West Virginia University Library, and of the Library of Congress; Generals F. C. Ainsworth and George B. Davis of the War Department; Hon. Junius Riggs of the Alabama Supreme Court Library; Senator Stephen B. Elkins; Hon. A. A. Wiley, Montgomery, Alabama; Dr. G. P. L. Reid, Marion, Alabama; Mr. T. C. Thompson, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Hon. J. S. Reynolds, Columbia, South Carolina; Professor Yates Snowden, South Carolina College; Mrs. Myrta Lockett Avary; Mrs. E. G. Boyd; Mr. G. W. Duncan of the University Publishing Company; Dr. R. G. Thwaites, Wisconsin Historical Society; Mr Albert Phelps, New Orleans; Hon. W. B. Ridgeley, Comptroller of the Currency. At all stages of the work I have been aided by my wife. West Virginia University, Morgantown, August 5, 1906. WALTER L. FLEMING. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I Section 1. The destruction of property (1) The ruin in city and country. Proscription of Unionists in Tennessee. John Minor Botts on the Southern situation. Treatment of the "truly Loyal." Persecution of Confederates by Unionists. Section 6. Northern men in the South Negro troops in South Carolina. "Outrageous exercise of tyranny." |