and destroy property of, 328;
lead the assault on Fort. Wagner, 329, 331-335;
number of battles fought by, in the Army of the Potomac, 335;
defeat Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee at Wilson's Wharf, 335, 336;
at the battle of Petersburg, Va., 336-342;
Nashville, Tenn., 342;
list of the losses, 343;
at Appomattox, Va., their efficiency as soldiers, 344;
forts garrisoned by, 345;
soldierly qualities, 346, 347;
history records their deeds of valor, in the preservation of the
Union, 349;
capture and treatment of, 350-376;
Confederate States opposed to the military employment of, by the
U. S. Government, 350, 351;
captured in arms against the Confederate States to be executed, 352;
captured, sold into slavery, the government urged to protect
enlisted, massacre of prisoners, 353;
ill-treatment of free, captured on gun-boat, 354;
Confederate States refuse to exchange captured, as prisoners of
war, 355, 357;
defend Fort Pillow, and are massacred, 360, 361;
testimony in regard to the massacre, 361-375;
the first decade of freedom, 377-383;
condition of, at the close of the war, 378, 381, 382;
bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees established, 379;
in Congress, members of Legislature in the Southern States, 382;
the results of emancipation, 384-418;
advance in education, 382, 387, 388, 396;
number of schools attended, 382;
amount of money raised by, for the support of schools, 386, 394;
population in excess of the whites, in La., S. C., and Miss., 386;
comparative statistics of education at the South, 388;
statistics of institutions for the instruction of, 389-393;
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established, 398;
military savings-banks, Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company
established, 403, 407;
failure of the bank, 411, 412;
social and financial condition of the, in the South, 413, 414;
character of the Southern, 414;
rarely receive justice in Southern courts, 415;
their treatment as convicts, 416;
increase, from 1790-1880, 417;
susceptible of the highest civilization, 418;
representative men, 419-448;
ratification of the fifteenth amendment, granting manhood suffrage
to American, 420-422;
in the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, in the
diplomatic service, 423;