The political history of the United States of America during the period of reconstruction, (from April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870,) including a classified summary of the legislation of the the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first congresses. With the votes thereon; together with the action, congressional and state, on the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and the other important executive, legislative, politico-military, and judicial facts of that period