UNION-DISUNION-REUNION.

THREE DECADES

OF

FEDERAL LEGISLATION.

1855 TO 1885.

PERSONAL AND HISTORICAL MEMORIES OF EVENTS PRECEDING,
DURING, AND SINCE

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR,

INVOLVING SLAVERY AND SECESSION, EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUC-
TION, WITH SKETCHES OF PROMINENT ACTORS
DURING THESE PERIODS.

SAMUEL S. Cox.

MEMBER OF CONGRESS FOR TWENTY-FOUR YEARS.

AUTHOR OF "BUCKEYE ABROAD," "WHY WE LAUGH," "WINTER SUNBEAMS,"
"ARCTIC SUNBEAMS," " ORIENT SUNBEAMS," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH THIRTY-SIX PORTRAITS ENGRAVED ON STEEL
EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK.

PROVIDENCE, R. I.: J. A. & R. A. REID, PUBLISHERS.
1888.