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United States Representative Thaddeus Stevens asks the House of Representatives whether the Confederate States are entitled to representation.
Congress divided the South into Military Districts.
Important events in Alexandria, VA history during the 1860s.
This debate between Republican moderates and Radical reinforced that everyone is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.
John M. Schofield's memoir of his time in the army, including his tenure as general of the First Military District of Virginia after the Civil War.
This is one volume of a multi-volume set created by the Freedom and Southern Society Project.
The Virginia Union Convention organized the Republican Party of Virginia and led to subsequent events that resulted in Freedmen suffrage at the end of…
An Act to establish the Freedmen's Bureau and Abandoned Lands.