Chapter XIII
Closing Operations of the War—Surrender.
Fall of Mobile—Last Engagement of the War—Johnston-Sherman Convention—Taylor surrenders to General Canby—Last Hours of the “Trans-Mississippi Department.”
Chapter XIV
Criticisms and Reflections.
Gettysburg—Shiloh—Albert Sidney Johnston—Lack of Statesmanship in the Confederacy—“King Cotton”—Carpet-Baggers.
Chapter XV
Reconstruction Under Johnson.
Interceding for Prisoners—Debauchery and Corruption in Washington—General Grant—Andrew Johnson—Stevens, Winter Davis, Sumner—Setting up and pulling down State Governments—The “Ku-Klux”
—Philadelphia Convention.
Chapter XVI
Reconstruction under Grant.
Demoralization at the North—a Corrupt Vice-President—a Hypocritical Banker—a Great Preacher profiting by his own Evil Reputation—Knaves made Plenipotentiaries—A Spurious Legislature installed in the Louisiana State House—General Sheridan in New Orleans—An American Alberoni—Presidential Election of 1876—Congress over-awed by a Display of Military Force.