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... Colored Troops , report of the chief of the . ( Part 1 ) Bureau of Refugees , Freedmen , and Abandoned Lands . Message from the President transmitting report of the commissioner of the Bureau , Freedmen's . Report of the commissioner of ...
... Colored Troops , report of the chief of the . ( Part 1 ) Bureau of Refugees , Freedmen , and Abandoned Lands . Message from the President transmitting report of the commissioner of the Bureau , Freedmen's . Report of the commissioner of ...
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... colored troops , central district , headquarters at Raleigh , North Carolina ; western district , headquarters at Greensboro ' , North Carolina ; Captain Robert B. Beath , 6th United States colored troops , southern district ...
... colored troops , central district , headquarters at Raleigh , North Carolina ; western district , headquarters at Greensboro ' , North Carolina ; Captain Robert B. Beath , 6th United States colored troops , southern district ...
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... colored witnesses is not admitted , are not competent , under existing regulations , to try any case in which the interests of freedmen are involved . The jurisdiction of such courts will not be recognized by officers of this bureau ...
... colored witnesses is not admitted , are not competent , under existing regulations , to try any case in which the interests of freedmen are involved . The jurisdiction of such courts will not be recognized by officers of this bureau ...
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... colored citizen , and fair play he must be guaranteed . Compulsory unpaid labor , except for the legal punishment of crime , will not be tolerated . JUSTICE . Differences arising between the freedmen ( or between themselves ) and others ...
... colored citizen , and fair play he must be guaranteed . Compulsory unpaid labor , except for the legal punishment of crime , will not be tolerated . JUSTICE . Differences arising between the freedmen ( or between themselves ) and others ...
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... colored infantry , acting assistant adju- tant general ; Captain R. J. Hinton , 83d regiment United States colored in- fantry , district inspector ; First Lieutenant A. J. Harding , 6th Missouri cavalry volunteers , aide - de - camp and ...
... colored infantry , acting assistant adju- tant general ; Captain R. J. Hinton , 83d regiment United States colored in- fantry , district inspector ; First Lieutenant A. J. Harding , 6th Missouri cavalry volunteers , aide - de - camp and ...
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00 January 00 New York ABANDONED LANDS Acting Assistant Adjutant Adjutant agents amount appointed assistant commissioner August barrels Brevet Brevet Major BUREAU OF REFUGEES BUREAU REFUGEES camp Captain cents Circular collector Colonel colored Columbia commission contracts creek crops DAVIS TILLSON December 31 Dist distilled spirits district dollars duty employed ending June 30 estimate February feet Females freed Freedmen's Bureau furnished gallon Georgia harbor HEADQUARTERS ASS'T COMMISSIONER honor hundred Illinois June 30 Kentucky labor Lieutenant Louisiana Males manufacture March Massachusetts miles military Miss Mississippi Missouri month National Bank negroes November O. O. HOWARD obedient servant October officers Ohio paid parties Pennsylvania persons pier plantations planters prairie present production Quarter ending quartermaster refugees and freedmen respectfully revenue river schools September South Carolina superintendent teachers tion Treasury United Veteran Reserve Corps Virginia Wager Swayne wages War Department Washington
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Page 12 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued.
Page 163 - ... all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 164 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Page 164 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 163 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 12 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 164 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 80 - Congress, and shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the President or either house of Congress...
Page 163 - Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 11 - Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight...