Browse Items (67 total)
This specific record is volume V that details the Presidency of Andrew Johnson and the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau on March 3, 1865.…
This is one volume of a multi-volume set created by the Freedom and Southern Society Project.
Public Papers of President Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
“The Appeal” from Proceedings of the Convention of the Colored People of VA., Held in the City of Alexandria.”Freedmen in Alexandria advocated for their right to vote and that suffrage and intervention by the Federal government are necessary to guarantee…
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.
In the spring of 1867, Congress passed an act that required the former Confederate states to hold conventions, in which African Americans were…
The Montana Post, March 16, 1867The Montana Post reported on the March 5th Alexandria election. The election results are to be nullified.
The New York Herald. March 6, 1867. Page 3. Image 3.The article depicted the results of the March 5th Alexandria election when approximately 1,000 Freedmen voted in the municipal election. Alexandria…
Legislative Acts/Legal Proceedings within the Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser.Four pages of the Richmond Whig from March 8, 1867.
The actions of Freedmen in Alexandria encouraged other former enslaved to vote in elections.…
Our Justification-Richmond Whig October 8, 1867.Virginia Conservatives-former Whig and democratic party discuss how they could potentially manipulate Freedmen going into the Committee of Nine which…