B.

Banks, General Nathaniel, and captured slaves, 99.

Baptist Church, 198, 202.

Beauregard, General P. G. T., on negro suffrage, 147-148.

Bingham, J. A., and impeachment of Johnson, 166.

Black, Jeremiah, and impeachment of Johnson, 166.

"Black Belt," post-war condition, 40-41; industrial revolution in, 265-267; and whites, 271; cotton production, 271-272 (note); domination of South by, 304; see also South.

Black Cavalry, 245.

Black Friday episode, 283.

"Black Laws," 89-90, 93-98, 115-116, 127, 141; see also Negroes, legislation.

Blaine, J. G., quoted, 125; and Republican party, 295.

Blair, F. P., of Missouri, Democratic nomination (1868), 168-169.

"Bloody shirt" issue in campaign of 1876, 295-296.

Border States, reconstruction in, 85-86; see also South.

Botts, J. M., of Virginia, 107.

Boutwell, G. S., radical leader, 122, 125; and tenure of office act, 134; and impeachment of Johnson, 166.

Boynton, General H. V. N., on Southern need of supplies, 5-6.

Bradley, Justice J. P., on electoral commission, 300.

"Brothers and Sisters of Pleasure and Prosperity," 275.

Brown, J. E., Governor of Georgia, and negro education, 212.

Brown, Gratz, candidate for presidential nomination, 287.

Brownlow, W. G., Governor of Tennessee, 224.

Bruce, B. K., negro senator, 242 (note).

Buchanan, General R. C., commands military district in South, 141 (note).

Bullock County (Ala.), Union League in, 192.

Butler, General B. F., and negro labor, 99; radical, 125; and impeachment of Johnson, 160, 166.