Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina

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355 Abbott, Joseph C., 4, 69, 220 African American troops. See also U.S. ColoredTroops (USCT) antipathy of to whiteTar Heels, 87 collisions between white troops and, 63, 123–24, 289n36 disciplinary problems of, 196 Greensboro citizens praise, 205 initial reaction of white civilians to, 31 James City riot and, 196–97 misconduct of, 64, 99, 194–95 occupation duty on the coast and, 42–43 opposition of whiteTar Heels to, 58–63, 194, 288n35 Smithville citizens petition to retain, 173 white officers’ abuse of, 65–66 Akerman,AmosT., 237, 250 instructs Holden to release Klan suspects, 232 oversees Raleigh Klan trials, 245 Albright,William A., 229 Albright,William R., 213 Alderman, JohnT., 267 Ambrose, Eliza, 126 Ambrose, Harriet, 126 Ames,Adelbert, 75 Ames, J.Worthington, 61, 68 Amnesty Act (1866), 124, 165 Amnesty Act (1873), 251, 255 Amnesty Act (U.S.), 260 Andersonville prison, 108 Antietam, Battle of, 71 Army, U.S., 83, 97, 130, 152, 215 confiscation of horses by, 81–82 conflicts between state militia and, 230–31 demobilization of volunteers, 42 Freedmen’s Bureau and, 84–87 Ku Klux Klan and, 205–6, 240–42, 244–46, 249–50 Lowry band and, 252–55 moonshiners and, 255–57 racism in, 195–96 Regulator crisis and, 147 role of in sectional reconciliation, 6, 258, 260–67 Army Generals and Reconstruction:Louisiana, 269 Army inTexas during Reconstruction,The, 269 Army of the Potomac, 135, 194, 239 Army Reorganization bill, 297n51 Asheville, N. C., election day disturbance at, 204 Atkins, Smith D., 30, 54 Avery, Robert, 129, 141, 201 Badham, Henry A., 220 Battle, Kemp P., 187 Baynes,Archibald, 77 iNDex 356 Index Beaufort, District of, 30 Beauregard, P. G.T., 12 Beebee,Archibald, 141, 165, 173 Beebee murder trial, 141–43 Belknap,William W., 221 Bellamy, John F., 127–28 Benjamin, Judah P., 12 Benjamin, Samuel N., reports on conditions in piedmont counties, 246, 248 Bergen, George B., 226 Biggerstaff,AaronV., 242 first Klan attack on, 238, 239 second Klan attack on, 239–40 Biggerstaff, Samuel, 238, 239, 242 Birnie,William H. H., 103 Birth of a Nation,The, 267 Black Codes, 3, 104–5, 125 Black Reconstruction in America, 268 Blair, Francis P., Jr., 199 Blake, Isham, 143 Blalock,William, 167 Blue, Daniel, Klan raid on family of, 207 Boernstein,Augustus S., 57, 74–75 Bomford, JamesV., 149, 265 1866 insurrection scare and, 128 participates in first Confederate Memorial Day, 266–67 praised by citizens of Raleigh, 185, 187 Regulator crisis and, 130–31, 145 upholds General Orders No. 15, 127 Bond, Hugh L., 245 Bosher, RoyalT. arrests Klan suspects in western counties, 242 commands militia in Alamance County, 209–10 Boston, Richard, 198 Bowe,William B., 85, 226 Bowers, Claude, 268 Bready,Allan C., 100, 103 Breckinridge, John C., Bennett Place negotiations and, 16 Brigman, S. G., 169 Brinkley, Miles C., 165, 166, 168 Brooks, George W., 231–32, 245 Brown, Joseph E., 11, 12 Bruner, J. J., 82 Bryan,William H., 102 Buchanan, James, 135 buffaloes, 101. See also Unionists Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. See Freedmen’s Bureau Busbee, Sidney A., attempts to publicize Regulators’ outrages, 146 Butler, Benjamin F., 23 Buxton, Ralph P., 201 Bynum,William P., refutes charges of judicial persecution of Unionists, 122 Caldwell,Tod R., 238, 246, 249, 259, 260 reports outrages of federal troops, 55 requests federal troops to subdue Lowry band, 252, 253–54 succeeds Holden as governor, 234 Calhoun, James (7th U.S. Cavalry), 257–58 Calhoun, James M., 16, 20 Callicott, Henry, 104 Camilla, Ga., massacre at, 203 campaigns, election, violence related to, 172, 182, 199–201 Campbell, John A., testifies about fraud against black soldiers, 66 Canby, Edward R. S., 142, 159, 161, 180, 194, 196, 215, 219, 265 Index 7 announces North Carolina constitutional convention, 181 answers complaints from Worth, 161–65 appoints commissioners to oversee elections, 182–83 assumes command of Second Military District, 161 consolidates army posts in North Carolina, 173 election fraud and, 185 ends Military Reconstruction in North Carolina, 191 judicial policy of, 169–70 Ku Klux Klan and, 220–21, 222 orders troop transfer, 185, 187 permits formation of biracial police units, 176 persecution of Unionists and, 166–67 removal of civil officials and, 170–71 replaces Sickles, 156 revokes several of Sickles’s orders, 166 role of in North Carolina’s return to the Union, 190 state election and, 171 transfer and assessment of...