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The Political History of the United States During the Period of Reconstruction.

This is a record of Congress such as voting on the Thirteenth through Fifteenth amendments.

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…

“Telegraph News: Special Dispatch To The Gazette From Washington: The Inauguration—President Grant’s Address—Vice President Colfax’s Speech.” Alexandria Gazette March 4, 1869.

The address by President Grant and Vice President Colfax on Freedmen suffrage.

Discovering the Decades 1860s Alexandria.

Important events in Alexandria, VA history during the 1860s.

The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia
Alexandria During the Civil War
A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents /
prepared under the direction of the Joint Committeee on Printing, of the House and Senate, pursuant to an act of the Fifty-second Congress of the United States (with additions and encyclopedic index by private enterprise) Volume V.

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.…

Forty-Six Years in the Army.

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.

February 7, 1866, Congressional Globe. Pages 702-708.

This debate between Republican moderates and Radical reinforced that everyone is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.

A narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to re-establish peaceful relations between the northern and southern states, and the subsequent efforts of the "Committee of Nine," in 1869, to secure the restoration of Virginia to the Union

The typed account of the events leading up to the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in Virginia, the Committee of Nine, and the end of Virginia…

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