CHAPTER XXXI. Mid-summer at the Capitol. 304 CHAPTER XXXII. Richmond, after Six Months of Yankee Rule. 315 CHAPTER XXXIII. Lynchburg—The Interior of Virginia. 328 CHAPTER XXXIV. Knoxville and the Mountaineers—Glimpses of Southern Ideas. 339 CHAPTER XXXV. Atlanta—Georgia Phases of Rebel and Union Talk. 355 CHAPTER XXXVI. Montgomery—The Lowest Phase of Negro Character—Politics and Business. 365 CHAPTER XXXVII. Selma—Government Armories—Talks among the Negroes. 380 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Mississippi Tavern Talks on National Politics—Scenes in the Interior. 390 CHAPTER XXXIX. Mobile Temper and Trade—Inducements of Alabama to Emigrants. 400 CHAPTER XL. Phases of Public Sentiment in New Orleans before Congress met. 407 CHAPTER XLI. Cotton Speculations—Temper of the Mississippians. 414 CHAPTER XLII. Memphis—Out from the Reconstructed. 425 CHAPTER XLIII. Congress takes Charge of Reconstruction. 429 CHAPTER XLIV. Southern Feeling after the Meeting of Congress. 439 CHAPTER XLV. Political and Business Complications in the South-West. 448 CHAPTER XLVI. The Sugar and Rice Culture in Louisiana—Profits and Obstacles. 457 CHAPTER XLVII. A Cotton Plantation—Work, Workmen, Wages, Expenses, and Returns. 475 CHAPTER XLVIII. Among the Cotton Plantations—Rations and Ways of Work. 492 CHAPTER XLIX. Plantation Negroes—Incidents and Characteristics. 503 CHAPTER L. Further Illustrations of Plantation Negro Character. 525 CHAPTER LI. Payments, Strikes, and other Illustrations of Plantation Negro Character. 546 CHAPTER LII. Labor Experiments and Prospects. 558 CHAPTER LIII. Concluding Suggestions. 574 Appendix. 581