Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declares the 11 states of the Confederacy and southerners “in a state of insurrection against the United States.” Lincoln also deems all commercial trade to states outside the Confederacy as “unlawful” as long as the insurrection continues. Thus, the thriving cotton trade between the South and Border states is severely…
Although little battlefield action takes place this month, public emotions are running high North and South while military leaders acquire equipment and plot strategy. The Connecticut Hartford Daily Courant runs a synopsis of a story from New York’s Auburn Advertiser concerning an incident in Georgia: The Auburn Advertiser states that a man named Dunning, who…
Today the informal emancipation of southern slaves begins, in the form of the United States’ Act to Confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes. While not mentioning slavery specifically, the Act approved by the President and passed by the Congress gives Union armies the power to confiscate the property of southerners – including slaves, the most…