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                    Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction


                                  _By_
                          CHARLES H. McCARTHY
                            =Ph.D.= (_Pa._)

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                                New York
                        McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
                                  MCMI




                         _Copyright_, 1901 _by_
                        McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.


                        PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1901

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                                CONTENTS


                                                               Page

     =Introduction=                                              xv


                                   I
                               TENNESSEE

     Election and Policy of Lincoln                               1

     East Tennessee                                               3

     Secession                                                    8

     Federal Victories                                           10

     A Military Governor                                         11

     Origin of Military Governors in the United States           12

     Measures of Governor Johnson                                17

     <DW64> Troops                                                20

     Nashville Convention of 1863                                21

     Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction                  23

     Steps to Restoration                                        27

     Nashville Convention of 1865                                30

     Election of William G. Brownlow                             32

     Nomination of Lincoln and Johnson                           32

     Presidential Election in Tennessee                          34


                                   II
                               LOUISIANA

     Popularity of Secession                                     36

     Financial Embarrassment                                     37

     Capture of New Orleans                                      38

     Lincoln’s Advice                                            38

     General Shepley appointed Military Governor                 39

     Election of Representatives to Congress                     45

     Division among Unionists                                    47

     Military Operations                                         49

     Lincoln Urges Reconstruction                                51

     Political Activity among