ght, official compiler
of Georgia Records.

[13] Furnished by Major John R. Lynch, May 19, 1915.

[14] North Carolina Manual, by North Carolina Historical Commission,
1913, pp. 863-906.

[15] _Ibid._, pp. 481-862.

[16] Reynolds, _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 76-79.

[17] In 1895 South Carolina again revised her constitution. In the
convention held for this purpose there were found Negro delegates,
viz.: Thomas E. Miller, L. R. Reed, Robert Smalls, W. J. Whipper and
James Wigg, all from Beaufort County. Smalls and Whipper had been
delegates in the 1868 convention. (Reported by H. H. Wallace.)

[18] Furnished by Mr. H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South
Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.

[19] Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's
_Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 106-107, 394-396.

[20] Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina
House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.

[21] Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's
_Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 107-108, 394-396.

[22] Reynolds, _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 106-108.

[23] Reynolds, _Reconstruction in South Carolina_, pp. 394-396.

[24] Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina
House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.

[25] _Ibid._

[26] _Ibid._

[27] George H. White, North Carolina, member of 55th and 56th
Congresses, as the last Negro member. (Editor.)

[28] He was a page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in
the Reconstruction Period.

[29] There were no colored members of the Tennessee Senate.

[30] Contested, not seated.

[31] 1868, 1870, see North Carolina list, Pasquotank County.

JAMES G. THOMPSON, THE ORIGINAL CARPETBAGGER[1]

"I suppose I might call myself the first Carpet Bagger." This
expression casually let fall by Mr. J.G. Thompson, of this city, in a
conversation with the writer, was so striking and so suggestive that I
asked him to explain. He complied, and in so doing, gave the following
extraordinary narrative, which he subsequently consented to have
published:

From the 7th of November, 1861, when Hilton Head was captured by the
United States naval forces, the sea islands of South Carolina never
passed out of the hands of the United States. Those islands and a
considerable portion of the mainland were thereupon brought under the