Freedmen's Bureau--Gen. O. O. Howard, Commissioner--Platform for 328 Reconstruction--Ironclad Oath--Natural Rights of Man--Civil Rights--Negroes Made Citizens--Persecution--Agents of Freedmen's Bureau--Personal Experience--Negro Justices--Some Trials--Judge Shackelford--Secret Societies--William A. Sharkey--Gov. Adelbert Ames--Sheriff Webber--Taxes--Board of Levee Commissioners Dismissed--Religious Negroes--Bishop Wilmer--Prayers for the President--Shotgun Election--Hegira--Carpetbaggers--Indissoluble Union--Indestructible States--We Were a Conquered Nation--Reconstruction Only a Definition for Deeds Done--Strength of Respective Armies APPENDIX. SOME STATISTICS OF THE WAR 353 PERCENTAGE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN LATE WARS 355 SLAVE OWNERS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY 355 PRISON DEATHS AND PRISONERS 357 THE AUTHORITY TO TAX 358 COST OF THE WAR 359 NAVAL POWER OF THE UNITED STATES 359 NAMES, RANK, AND POSITIONS OF OFFICERS ON MY STAFF 359 GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA, 1875-76 360 VIOLATION OF PAROLES 365 CASSVILLE 367 SLAVERY PROCLAMATION AND CONFISCATION ACT 383 INDENTURE 385 OUR UNKNOWN DEAD 402 ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, ETC.