Nos. 6 and 7.-The Freedmen's Bureau.. Veto Messages of the President. Official Regulations of the Bureau. Reports of Bureau Officials..... Confiscation: "40 Acres and a Mule". Documents Relating to the History of Reconstruction In this series of reprints will be reproduced documents illustrating the peculiar conditions, social, political and economic, that prevailed in the Southern states during Reconstruction. The first numbers will consist of documents relating to the Ku Klux Movement; following these will be published selections concerning the Freedmen's Bureau and the Union League; and finally several numbers illustrative of social and economic conditions under the "carpet-bag" governments will be printed. Newspaper files, public documents and pamphlets and manuscripts from private collections will furnish the material that is to be reproduced. Many of the documents are at present inaccessible to students who are not In reach of large libraries, and some of them have never been published. A special discount will be made on orders for class use. One number will appear each month during the college year. The following is a tentative list of titles: 1. The Constitution and the Ritual of the Knights of the White Camelia. 2. The Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan; The Revised and Amended Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan. 3. The Constitution of the White League, the Council of Safety and similar orders, 4. Ku Klux Orders, Warnings, etc. 5. The Constitution, Ritual and Catechism of the Union League. 6. Freedmen's Bureau Documents, 7 Schools and Churches During Reconstruction. Other titles will be added to the list and substitutions will be made. Correspondence is invited in regard to additions and substitutions. Address Walter L. Fleming, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. |