Tag Archives: Confiscation Act

Law Text: An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes, 1862

A Bill To amend the confiscation act, and for other purposes. In order to secure to the loyal people of the United States ”indemnity for the past and security for the future,” and cause the rebels to pay part of the enormous expenses incurred and debts contracted in suppressing the rebellion, by a just condemnation and appropriation of all the property, real and personal, of the actors, instigators, and aiders of said rebellion, to the full extent authorized by the Constitution, 1863

News article: Proclamation by General Fremont on the Confiscation Act, 1861

News article: On the Confiscation Act and reconstruction, 1863

Journal article: On the Confiscation Act, 1861