The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political ScienceJohn Martin Vincent Johns Hopkins University Press, 1904 - History |
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... FREEDMEN'S BUREAU AND THE UNION LEAGUE .. 54 V. THE STATE CAMPAIGN OF 1867. ... 64 VI . THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1868 .... 87 VII . THE RESTORATION OF VIRGINIA 104 PREFACE . This monograph does not attempt to deal with.
... FREEDMEN'S BUREAU AND THE UNION LEAGUE .. 54 V. THE STATE CAMPAIGN OF 1867. ... 64 VI . THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1868 .... 87 VII . THE RESTORATION OF VIRGINIA 104 PREFACE . This monograph does not attempt to deal with.
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... Freedmen's Bureau and the Union League were the agencies which drew the freedmen into the Republican party . ( 6 ) In the beginning of the reconstruction a consider- able and influential part of the conservative people , chiefly Whigs ...
... Freedmen's Bureau and the Union League were the agencies which drew the freedmen into the Republican party . ( 6 ) In the beginning of the reconstruction a consider- able and influential part of the conservative people , chiefly Whigs ...
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... Freedmen's Bureau report in 1866 mentioned the great benefits effected by this enactment.10 Further , in order to protect the freedmen in their igno- rant condition , the law declared that no contract should be binding for longer than ...
... Freedmen's Bureau report in 1866 mentioned the great benefits effected by this enactment.10 Further , in order to protect the freedmen in their igno- rant condition , the law declared that no contract should be binding for longer than ...
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... Freedmen's Bureau ; Major- General A. H. Terry , and Charles H. Lewis , secretary of the commonwealth . Nearly all ... freedmen . Joynes testified to the loyalty and well - meaning of the Virginia legislature . However , the favorable ...
... Freedmen's Bureau ; Major- General A. H. Terry , and Charles H. Lewis , secretary of the commonwealth . Nearly all ... freedmen . Joynes testified to the loyalty and well - meaning of the Virginia legislature . However , the favorable ...
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... Freedmen's Bureau bill and civil rights bill increased the radical activities . An attempt was made at party organization at the " Unconditional Union Convention " meeting at Alex- andria on May 17 , 1866. " It elected John Minor Botts ...
... Freedmen's Bureau bill and civil rights bill increased the radical activities . An attempt was made at party organization at the " Unconditional Union Convention " meeting at Alex- andria on May 17 , 1866. " It elected John Minor Botts ...
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Page 55 - Wherever through the ages rise The altars of self-sacrifice, Where love its arms has opened wide, Or' man for man has calmly died, I see the same white wings outspread That hovered o'er the Master's head...