Civil War Archives - Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War

Book on the history of education for African Americans by Carter G. Woodson, 1919

The Negro in Our History

Book on the history of African Americans in the U.S., 1922

The Negroes of Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War

Article on the history of African Americans in Cincinnati, 1916

Resolutions adopted by the Grand Union League of Maryland, March 20, 1867.

House and Senate Documents: Affairs in Maryland. Resolutions adopted by Grand Union League, 1867

[Presidential proclamation implementing Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in States in rebellion]

Presidential Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes

Law Text: An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes, 1861

Digest of opinions of Judge Advocate General of Army

Digest of opinions of Judge Advocate General of Army, 1865

Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress.

State of the Union address, 1865

Rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse with and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection; collection, receipt, and disposition of captured, abandoned, and confiscable property; and employment and general welfare of freedmen [with amendment, text]

Rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse with and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection, 1864

A bill to facilitate the suppression of the rebellion and prevent its return, and that the President be requested to declare free, and to direct all our generals and officers in command to order freedom to, all enslaved persons who shall leave their masters, or shall aid in quelling this rebellion., 1861

Message of the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Thirty-seventh Congress.

State of the Union address, 1862

Declaring the objects of the war and the purposes of the President in regard to slavery, enjoining obedience to certain acts of Congress and announcing the President’s intention to recommend compensation to loyal persons for the loss of slaves. September 22, 1862

Declaring the objects of the war and the purposes of the President in regard to slavery, enjoining obedience to certain acts of Congress and announcing the President’s intention to recommend compensation to loyal persons for the loss of enslaved persons. September 22, 1862, 1862

39 H.R. 63 (1865-1867)

A bill to double the pensions of those who were made pensioners by the casualties of the late war; to pay the damages done to loyal men by the rebel government and rebel raiders; and enforce the confiscation laws, so as to pay the same out of the confiscated property of the enemy., 1865

Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 4th ultimo, copies of all instructions given to commanding generals in pursuance of the acts of Congress approved August 6, 1861, setting free slaves who have been employed, by the consent of their masters, against the government of the United States.

Instructions given to commanding generals under act of Congress of August 6, 1861, setting free enslaved persons employed by consent of their masters against United States, 1862

Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress.

State of the Union address, 1864

Resolutions of the legislature of Michigan, in favor of the proclamation of the President of the United States, of the first of January, emancipating the slaves in the slaves in the insurgent states, and pledging the State of Michigan to sustain the national administration in all its efforts to quell the present rebellion, and restore peace to the Union.

Resolutions of legislature of Michigan approving emancipation proclamation and sustaining administration in efforts to suppress rebellion, 1863

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-sixth Congress

State of the Union address, 1860

Emancipation of the slaves of rebels. (to accompany bill H.R. no. 472.).

Emancipation of the enslaved persons of rebels, 1862

Emancipation and colonization. (to accompany bill H.R. no. 576.).

Emancipation and colonization of enslaved persons, 1862

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 26th of May, a copy of the preliminary report, and also of the final report of the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission.

Copy of preliminary report; also final report of American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864

Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress.

State of the Union address, 1863

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