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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 55: first appropriation by congress for the bureau; the reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867; increase of educational work (search)
ure had, in addition to white schools, provided for colored schools, putting one in any district or town where there were upward of 25 scholars, and also had established a permanent tax of 10 mills upon taxable property for school support. Just as soon in 1868 as this fund should become available, the State superintendent promised to cooperate with our Bureau officers and earnestly push the educational work. So there was hope ahead for Tennessee. General Sidney Burbank had relieved General Davis about the middle of February in Kentucky. This State was slow to modify objectionable laws in spite of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the clear-cut Civil-Rights-Law, which necessitated the eventual repeal of every cruel and unjust measure. The State Court of Appeals had in fact retarded progress by giving a decision against the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act, that is, within the State jurisdiction. Kentucky in its criminal c
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 57: the Ku-Klux Klan (search)
heir commands, made himself a brush arbor and there continued his school to the end of the term. Before the November election (the freedmen's first national suffrage) the Ku-Klux, armed and masked as usual, at night paraded the streets of several cities, and filled the freedmen with terror. Similar detachments boldly roamed over large districts of country outside of the cities. At Rock Spring, Ky., the Ku-Klux, estimated fifty strong, came at ten o'clock at night, seized the teacher, James Davis, a native of the place, an able and respected colored man, and ordered him to leave the country. His fine school building was reduced to ashes. On October 21, 1868, a host of these Regulators set upon a negro assembly at Cadiz, which a Bureau messenger, Mr. P. S. Reeves, was visiting and addressing. The Regulators stoned the building and dispersed the negroes. Some of the rush shouted after Mr. Reeves: Kill the scalawag! Shoot the Yankee This was done while he was finding his way
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
Curtin, A. G., I, 138. Curtis, N. M., II, 347. Custer, George A., II, 475. Cutler, Lysander, I, 407, 415. Cuyler, John M., I, 181, 253. Dahlgren, John A., II, 85,91,92,96. Daily, Dennis, I, 497. Dallas, Battle of, I, 550-570. Dalton, Battle of, I, 499-512. Dana, N. J. T., I, 239, 292, 296, 297. Danby, Miss, II, 99. Daniels, Mary E., II, 556. Darling, John A., 11, 546. Davidson, J. W., I, 218. Davis, B. F., I, 277. Davis, Henry Winter, II, 321. Davis, James, II, 381. Davis, Jeff. C., I, 476, 497, 520, 28, 542, 557-560, 581, 584, 585; II, 29, 39, 43, 51, 52, 57, 146, 290, 345, 463. Davis, Jefferson, I, 99, 203, 488; II, 48, 93. Davis, Joseph R., I, 408, 415. Day, H. Howard, II, 327. Dayton, L. M., II, 62. Deady, M. P., II, 473. Dean, Stephen H., I, 23. DeGress, Francis, II, 13, 82, 90 119. Dehon, Arthur, I, 335. Delafield, Richard, I, 100. Delano, Columbus, II, 445, 466. Dennison, William, II, 227. Denv