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“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.

Chronicling America Alexandria gazette. [volume], February 06, 1866, Image 1

Freedmen in Alexandria passed a resolution calling on Congress to utilize the military to protect Freedmen.

"The first vote" / AW [monogram]; drawn by A.R. Waud.

Print shows African American men, in dress indicative of their professions, in a queue waiting their turn to vote.

“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…

14th Amendment

The text of the Fourteenth Amendment on July 20, 1866, after it passed both houses of Congress.

15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Text of the Fifteenth Amendment through the Congressional Globe and related resources through the Library of Congress.

A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789, 1897. Published by Authority of Congress.

Public Papers of President Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

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.…

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…

Address of the loyal Virginians to their friends in the North
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