UNION-DISUNION-REUNION.

THREE DECADES

OF

FEDERAL LEGISLATION.

1855 TO 1885.

PERSONAL AND HISTORICAL MEMORIES OF EVENTS PRECEDING,
DURING, AND SINCE

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR,

INVOLVING SLAVERY AND SECESSION, EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUC-
TION, WITH SKETCHES OF PROMINENT ACTORS

DURING THESE PERIODS.

BY

SAMUEL S. Cox.

MEMBER OF CONGRESS FOR TWENTY-FOUR YEARS.

AUTHOR OF "BUCKEYE ABROAD," "WHY We Laugh," "WINTER SUNBEAMS,"
"ARCTIC SUNBEAMS," "ORIENT SUNBEAMS," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH THIRTY-SIX PORTRAITS ENGRAVED ON STEEL
EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.:
OCCIDENTAL PUBLISHING CO.

1885.

Press of

J. A. & R. A. REID, PUBLISHERS,

Providence, R. I.

Steel Plates by the

HOMER-LEE BANK NOTE Co.,

New-York.

773 C873 c.

COPYRIGHT, 1885,

BY SAMUEL S. COX.

All Rights Reserved.