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273 Relations between Whites and Blacks 275 Destitution and Want, 1865-1866 277   CHAPTER VI Confiscation and the Cotton Tax Confiscation Frauds 284 Restrictions on Trade in 1865 284 Federal Claims to Confederate Property 285 Cotton Frauds and Stealing 290 Cotton Agents Prosecuted 297 Statistics of the Frauds 299 The Cotton Tax 303   CHAPTER VII The Temper of the People After the Surrender 308 “Condition of Affairs in the South” 311 General Grant’s Report 311 Carl Schurz’s Report 312 Truman’s Report 312 Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction 313 The “Loyalists” 316 Treatment of Northern Men 318 Immigration to Alabama 321 Troubles of the Episcopal Church 324   PART IV PRESIDENTIAL RESTORATION   CHAPTER VIII First Provisional Administration Theories of Reconstruction 333 Presidential Plan in Operation 341 Early Attempts at “Restoration” 341 Amnesty Proclamation 349 “Proscribing Proscription” 356 The “Restoration” Convention 358 Personnel and Parties 358 Debates on Secession and Slavery 360 “A White Man’s Government” 364 Legislation by the Convention 366 “Restoration” Completed 367   CHAPTER IX Second Provisional Administration Status of the Provisional Government 376 Legislation about Freedmen 378 The Negro under the Provisional Government 383 Movement toward Negro Suffrage 386 New Conditions of Congress and Increasing Irritation 391 Fourteenth Amendment Rejected 394 Political Conditions, 1866-1867; Formation of Parties 398   CHAPTER X Military Government, 1865-1866 The Military Occupation 408 The Army and the Colored Population 410 Administration of Justice by the Army 413 The Army and the White People 417   CHAPTER XI The Wards of the Nation The Freedmen’s Bureau 421 Department of Negro Affairs 421 Organization of the Bureau 423 The Bureau and the Civil Authorities 427 The Bureau supported by Confiscations 431 The Labor Problem 433 Freedmen’s Bureau Courts 437 Care of the Sick 441 Issue of Rations 442 Demoralization caused by Bureau 444 The Freedmen’s Savings-bank 451 The Freedmen’s Bureau and Negro Education 456 The Failure of the Bureau System 469   PART V CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION   CHAPTER XII Military Government under the Reconstruction Acts Administration of General John Pope 473 Military Reconstruction Acts 473 Pope’s Control of the Civil