- 1Preface
- 2Introductory
- 3Chapter I — Opening Scenes
- 4Chapter II — Locations of the Members and Cast of the Committees
- 5Chapter III — Formation of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
- 6Chapter IV — Suffrage in the District of Columbia
- 7Chapter V — The Freedmen
- 8Chapter VI — The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill in the Senate
- 9Chapter VII — The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill in the House
- 10Chapter VIII — The Senate and the Veto Message
- 11Chapter IX — The Civil Rights Bill in the Senate
- 12Chapter X — The Civil Rights Bill in the House of Representatives
- 13Chapter XI — The Civil Rights Bill, and the Veto
- 14Chapter XII — The Second Freedmen’s Bureau Bill Becomes a Law
- 15Chapter XIII — First Words on Reconstruction
- 16Chapter XIV — The Basis of Representation — In the House
- 17Chapter XV — The Basis Of-Representation — In the Senate
- 18Chapter XVI — Representation of the Southern States
- 19Chapter XVII — The Reconstruction Amendment — In the House
- 20Chapter XVIII — The Reconstruction Amendment — In the Senate
- 21Chapter XIX — Report of the Committee on Reconstruction
- 22Chapter XX — Restoration of Tennessee
- 23Chapter XXI — Negro Suffrage
- 24Chapter XXII — The Military Reconstruction Act
- 25Chapter XXIII — Other Important Acts
- 26Chapter XXIV — The President and Congress
- 27Chapter XXV — Personal
- 28Biographical Index of the Thirty-Ninth Congress
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress
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