Archive for '- Civil War'
The Check is in the Mail: The Hunt for Abraham Lincoln’s Congressional Pay Records
Today’s blog post comes from David J. Gerleman, assistant editor of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln’s two-year stint as a Illinois Whig congressman is one of the lesser-known periods of his eventful life. Had he remained in obscurity, it might have remained the crowning achievement of a fizzled frontier political career. Having been [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 7, 2013, under - Civil War, - Presidents, Letters in the National Archives.
Tags: 30th Congress, Congress, David J. Gerleman, guest blogger, guest post, lincoln, mileage, pay records, research in the National Archives, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, voucher
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Emancipation Proclamation: The 13th Amendment
Today’s blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick. The news of the Emancipation Proclamation was greeted with joy, even though it did not free all the slaves. Because of the limitations of the proclamation, and because it depended on a Union military victory, President Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 3, 2013, under - Civil War, - Presidents.
Tags: 13th amendment, Congress, Constitution, emancipation, Emancipation Proclamation, guest post
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Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863
Today’s blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick. On the first day of the new year in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, declaring freedom for slaves in parts of the Confederacy that had not yet come under Union control. Historian John Hope Franklin described the day: [It] was a [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 1, 2013, under - Civil War.
Tags: Emancipation Proclamation, guest post, lincoln, New Year's Day, william seward
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Emancipation Proclamation: A Letter Home
Today’s blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation brought freedom to the slaves in the Confederacy. By the war’s end, the U.S. Colored Troops Bureau had recruited hundreds of thousands of black soldiers, who fought for both their own and others’ freedom. The Emancipation [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 31, 2012, under - Civil War, Letters in the National Archives.
Tags: 55th, army, civil war, guest post, letters, slavery, U.S. Colored Troops, USCT
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Emancipation Proclamation: Creation of the United States Colored Troops
The issues of freedom for the slaves and military service were intertwined from the beginning of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter had set off a rush by free black men to enlist in military units. They were turned away, however, because a Federal law dating from 1792 barred them from bearing arms for [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 30, 2012, under - Civil War.
Tags: civil war, Colored Troops, guest post, slavery, Union, US Colored Troops, USCT, war Department
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