5. Carl Schurz, The Condition of the South: Extracts from the Report of Major-General Carl Schurz, on the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana: Addressed to the President (N.p., [1865?]). (32 p.)


Report of Gen. Schurz’s tour of the South during the summer of 1865. Three-fourths of the pamphlet is taken up by the report. The remaining eight pages are devoted to statements and letters regarding the condition of freedmen. (The collection has a copy of Schurz’s unabridged report with supporting documentation in volume 72 [no. 2].)