202 



FRASER, JOHN. 



FRASER, JOHN. XI. Obituary of, 598. 



FRAZER, Prof. JOHN W. XII. Birth, death, 

 career, 325. 



FREDERICK VII. III. Birth, 422 ; death, 

 422 ; reign, 422. 



FREDERICK, Md. II. Its situation, 479; popu- 

 lation, 479 ; occupation by Confederate troops, 

 479 ; evacuation, 479. 



FREDERICK CHARLES, Prince. XI. Career, 

 363. 



FREDERICK WILLIAM, Prince. XI. Career, 

 363. 



FREDERICK WILLIAM. XV. Ex-Elector of 

 Hesse, 325 ; biographical sketch of, 325. 



FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. I. Birth, 328; 

 education, 328 ; as a soldier, 328 ;. as a king, 

 328 ; death, 328. 



FREDERICKSBURG, Va. II. Its situation, 479 ; 

 population, 479 ; evacuation by Confederate 

 troops, 479 ; Federal occupation and evacua- 

 tion, 479 ; battle at, 480. 



FREDERICKTOWN, Va. I. Its situation, 328 ; 

 skirmish at, 328 ; details, 328. 



FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. XIV. Chief 

 features of the organization and government, 

 331 ; convocation, 331 ; proposed union with 

 the Reformed Episcopal Church of America, 

 331 ; doctrine and constitution of the Church, 

 331. 



FREEDMEN OF THE SOUTH. III. Effect of 

 the emancipation proclamation on them, 425 ; 

 opinions on their organization as soldiers, 426 ; 

 efforts to enlist them, 426 ; bravery, 427 ; their 

 treatment as prisoners, 427; labor organiza- 

 tions, 428 ; order of the Secretary of War, 428 ; 

 provisions relative to families, 429 ; camps, 

 429 ; order of General Grant, 429 ; manage- 

 ment of farm camps, 430 ; leasing plantations, 

 430 ; schools, 430. 



IV. Numbers 387; management and pro- 

 vision for them, 387 ; failure of the compen- 

 sated labor systems, 387 ; home colonies, 388 ; 

 how organized, 388 ; freedmen in Savannah, 

 388; aid societies, commissions, and associa- 

 tions, 388. 



V. Order of General Sherman reserving 

 islands and rice-lands to negroes, 370 ; Freed- 

 men's Bureau established, 371 ; General How- 

 ard appointed chief commissioner, 371 ; com- 

 missioners, 371 ; organization of the bureau, 

 372; General Howard's circulars of instruc- 

 tions, 372-374 ; circular in relation to aban- 

 doned lands, 373 ; tabular statement of lands 



FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. 



held and restored, 373; Government action in 

 relation to freedmen on the coast-islands, 374 ; 

 mission of General Howard, 874 ; lands libelled 

 in Virginia, 375; employment, 375; schools, 

 375, 376 ; Government farms, 375 ; free trans- 

 portation, 375 ; rations, 375 ; receipts and ex- 

 penditures of the bureau, 376; sickness and 

 mortality, 376 ; tabular statement of freedmen 

 treated by the medical department, 376 ; white 

 refugees received at the hospitals, 376 ; educa- 

 ti^nal statistics, 377 ; General Howard on the 

 value of the bureau, 377 ; number of freedmen 

 receiving supplies in various States, 378. 



VI. Amendment to the act establishing the 

 bureau, 336 ; General Howard commissioner, 

 336 ; wages, how determined, 336 ; a division 

 of claims, 336 ; transportation, 336 ; rations 

 issued, 336; recommendation to stop the is- 

 sue, 336 ; expenses of managing the freedmen, 

 837; additional funds necessary, 837; reports 

 of Generals Fullerton and Steedman, 337 ; in- 

 justice to freedmen by officers of the bureau, 

 337 ; schools, 837 ; present condition, 338. 



VII. Condition, 322 ; exercise suffrage, 322 ; 

 education, 322; report of General Howard, 

 322, 323. 



X. Establishment of the bureau of, 313; 

 purposes, 313; constitution, 314; bill to con- 

 tinue, 314 ; provisions of, 314 ; modification of, 

 in July, 1868, 314; provision for termination 

 of, 315; abandoned lands, 315; transporta- 

 tion, 315 ; claims and bounties, 315 ; supplies 

 of food, 316 ; medical supplies, 316 ; education, 

 316; school statistics, 317 ; financial statistics, 

 317; opinions of foreigners as to bureau, 317. 



XII. Transfer of affairs of, to the War De- 

 partment, 33. 



FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. I. Attack on a 

 weekly paper in New Hampshire, 328 ; attack 

 on a weekly paper in Maine, 328 ; newspapers 

 suppressed in St. Louis, 328 ; attack on a week- 

 ly paper in Pennsylvania, 329 ; treatment of 

 an editor in New Hampshire, 329 ; attack upon 

 another weekly paper in Pennsylvania, 329; 

 inquiry of the grand-jury of the United States 

 Court in New York if certain newspapers can 

 be indicted, 329 ; these papers excluded from 

 the mails, 329 ; action of a grand-jury in New 

 Jersey, 329 ; suppression of a weekly paper in 

 New York State, 330. 



II. Order of the Secretary of War relative 

 to newspaper publications, 480 ; second order, 

 480; other orders, 480; restrictions on the 



