Eaton, John, chaplain in Grant's army, 99. Eaton, Colonel John, 106. Education, negro, 45; Freedmen's Bureau and, 111-112; in South, 208-220. Elections under carpetbag rule, 237-239. Electoral Commission, 299-300. Emancipation Proclamation, 36, 176. Enforcement acts, 260-261, 290, 292, 303. Episcopal Church, 198, 204. Evarts, W. M., counsel at impeachment, 166. Ewing, Thomas, nominated Secretary of War, 164. F. Fessenden, General, Freedmen's Bureau official, 106. Fessenden, W. P., moderate Republican, 122; and negro suffrage, 132. Finance, post-war condition in South, 2, 5; war taxes, 8; license taxes, 76; repudiation of Confederate war debt, 77, 130; under military governors, 145-146; effect of bad government in South, 230-236; credit system, 270; readjustments, 283; panic of 1873, 283. Fish, C. R., The Path of Empire, cited, 284 (note). Fisk, General, criticism of Kentucky Legislature, 113. Fisk, James, 283, 286. Florida, negro colony in, 36; negro legislation, 96; and Fourteenth Amendment, 132; negro voters, 151; schools, 215; recitation in negro school, 218-219; and reconstruction government, 221; corruption, 226; taxes, 231; decrease in property values, 233; Equal Rights Law, 276; and radicals, 294, 295; election of 1876, 297, 298. Forrest, General, Grand Wizard of Ku Klux, 248, 259. Freedmen, see Negroes. Freedmen's Aid Societies, 177, 207, 213. Freedmen's Bureau, 38, 81, 82, 85, 86, 90, 126, 161, 187; confiscable property turned over to, 11; official describes conditions in South, 13-14; as relief agency, 15; in Kentucky, 26; as publicity agent, 28; and contract labor, 46; on relations between races, 48; agitators from, 53; extension, 74, 84, 128, 129; and negroes, 80, 142, 149, 175; views of North carried out in, 89; influence on legislation and government, 94, 97, 143; officials of, 97, 98-99; character of, 98; established (1865), 102-103; functions, 103-104, 107-109; objections to, 104-105, 112-113; organization, 105-107; courts, 110-111, 113-114; educational work, 111-112; political possibilities, 115; results, 116-117; and radicals, 131, 156; Union League and, 177, 188, 194 (note), 195; negro education, 213. Freedmen's Bureau Act, 128, 129, 137. Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, 101. "Freedmen's Readers," 218. Frémont, J. C., and the radicals, 119. Fullerton, General, and Freedmen's Bureau, 106, 113; on treatment of negroes, 112-113. G.