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Orders No. 15">Special Field Orders No. 15</a>)</div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Attempt to redistribute land during the US Civil War</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the film production company, see <a href="/wiki/40_Acres_and_a_Mule_Filmworks" title="40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks">40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:General_William_T._Sherman_(4190887790)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A middle aged man in military dress" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/General_William_T._Sherman_%284190887790%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-General_William_T._Sherman_%284190887790%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/General_William_T._Sherman_%284190887790%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-General_William_T._Sherman_%284190887790%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/General_William_T._Sherman_%284190887790%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-General_William_T._Sherman_%284190887790%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1746" data-file-height="2118" /></a><figcaption>General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule.</figcaption></figure> Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union General <a href="/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman" title="William Tecumseh Sherman">William Tecumseh Sherman</a> on January 16, 1865, during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Sherman later ordered the army to lend <a href="/wiki/Mule" title="Mule">mules</a> for the agrarian reform effort. The field orders followed a series of conversations between Secretary of War <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Stanton" title="Edwin Stanton">Edwin M. Stanton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radical_Republicans" title="Radical Republicans">Radical Republican</a> abolitionists <a href="/wiki/Charles_Sumner" title="Charles Sumner">Charles Sumner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thaddeus_Stevens" title="Thaddeus Stevens">Thaddeus Stevens</a><a href="#cite_note-Gates-2">[2]</a> following disruptions to the institution of <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">slavery</a> provoked by the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) of land along the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic</a> coast of <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres (16 ha),<a href="#cite_note-Order-3">[3]</a> on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 formerly enslaved families and other black people then living in the area. Many freed people believed, after being told by various political figures, that they had a right to own the land they had been forced to work as slaves and were eager to control their own property. Freed people widely expected to legally claim 40 acres of land.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> However, <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s successor as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" title="Andrew Johnson">Andrew Johnson</a>, tried to reverse the intent of Sherman's wartime Order No. 15 and similar provisions included in the second <a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau_bills" title="Freedmen's Bureau bills">Freedmen's Bureau bills</a>. Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction during the war and for a brief period thereafter. However, federal and state policy during the <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a> emphasized wage labor, not land ownership, for black people. Almost all land allocated during the war was restored to its pre-war white owners.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Several black communities did maintain control of their land, and some families obtained new land by <a href="/wiki/Homestead_Acts" title="Homestead Acts">homesteading</a>. Black land ownership increased markedly in <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> during the 19th century, particularly. The state had much undeveloped <a href="/wiki/Bottomland" class="mw-redirect" title="Bottomland">bottomland</a> (low-lying <a href="/wiki/Alluvial_plain" title="Alluvial plain">alluvial</a> land near a river) behind riverfront areas that had been cultivated before the war. 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title="Abbasid harem">Abbasid harem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Imperial_Harem" title="Ottoman Imperial Harem">Ottoman Imperial Harem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safavid_imperial_harem" title="Safavid imperial harem">Safavid imperial harem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qajar_harem" title="Qajar harem">Qajar harem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarya" title="Jarya">Jarya</a>/<a href="/wiki/Cariye" title="Cariye">Cariye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odalisque" title="Odalisque">Odalisque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qiyan" title="Qiyan">Qiyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umm_al-walad" title="Umm al-walad">Umm al-walad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circassian_slave_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Circassian slave trade">Circassian slave trade</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saqaliba" title="Saqaliba">Saqaliba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Slavery in the Rashidun Caliphate">Slavery in the Rashidun Caliphate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Slavery in the Umayyad Caliphate">Slavery in the Umayyad Caliphate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate">Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volga_Bulgarian_slave_trade" title="Volga Bulgarian slave trade">Volga Bulgarian slave trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_21st-century_jihadism" title="Slavery in 21st-century jihadism">21st century</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_slave_trade" title="Bristol slave trade">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade_to_Brazil" title="Atlantic slave trade to Brazil">Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voyages:_The_Trans-Atlantic_Slave_Trade_Database" title="Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database">Database</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Slave_Coast" title="Dutch Slave Coast">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Passage" title="Middle Passage">Middle Passage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nantes_slave_trade" title="Nantes slave trade">Nantes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_New_France" title="Slavery in New France">New France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panyarring" title="Panyarring">Panyarring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_America" title="Slavery in colonial Spanish America">Spanish Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_Coast_of_West_Africa" title="Slave Coast of West Africa">Slave Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_colonial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the colonial history of the United States">Thirteen colonies</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Topics and practice</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">Conscription</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ghilman" title="Ghilman">Ghilman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamluk" title="Mamluk">Mamluk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devshirme" title="Devshirme">Devshirme</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackbirding" title="Blackbirding">Blackbirding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coolie" title="Coolie">Coolie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e" title="Corvée">Corvée labour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Field_slaves_in_the_United_States" title="Field slaves in the United States">Field slaves in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_United_States" title="Treatment of slaves in the United States">Treatment</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_slave" title="House slave">House slaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saqaliba" title="Saqaliba">Saqaliba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_market" title="Slave market">Slave market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_raiding" title="Slave raiding">Slave raiding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_military" title="History of children in the military">Child soldiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_slavery" title="White slavery">White slavery</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Naval</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galley_slave" title="Galley slave">Galley slave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impressment" title="Impressment">Impressment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbary_pirates" title="Barbary pirates">Pirates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanghaiing" title="Shanghaiing">Shanghaiing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_ship" title="Slave ship">Slave ship</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">By country or region</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa" title="Slavery in Africa">Sub-Saharan Africa</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_contemporary_Africa" title="Slavery in contemporary Africa">Contemporary Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Saharan_slave_trade" title="Trans-Saharan slave trade">Trans-Saharan slave trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Sea_slave_trade" title="Red Sea slave trade">Red Sea slave trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean_slave_trade" title="Indian Ocean slave trade">Indian Ocean slave trade</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zanzibar_slave_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Zanzibar slave trade">Zanzibar slave trade</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Angola" title="Slavery in Angola">Angola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Chad" title="Human trafficking in Chad">Chad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Comoros" title="Slavery in the Comoros">Comoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Ethiopia" title="Slavery in Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Mali" title="Slavery in Mali">Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania" title="Slavery in Mauritania">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Niger" title="Slavery in Niger">Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Nigeria" title="Slavery in Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Seychelles" title="Slavery in Seychelles">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Somalia" title="Slavery in Somalia">Somalia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Somali_slave_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Somali slave trade">Somali slave trade</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_South_Africa" title="Slavery in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Sudan" title="Slavery in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Zanzibar" title="Slavery in Zanzibar">Zanzibar</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery in the Americas">North and South America</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Pre-Columbian_America" title="Slavery in Pre-Columbian America">Pre-Columbian America</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aztec_slavery" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec slavery">Aztec</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_among_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas">Americas indigenous</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery among Native Americans in the United States">U.S. Natives</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Field_slaves_in_the_United_States" title="Field slaves in the United States">Field slaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Female_slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Female slavery in the United States">female</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_slavery_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Contemporary slavery in the United States">Contemporary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_states_and_free_states" title="Slave states and free states">maps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partus_sequitur_ventrem" title="Partus sequitur ventrem">partus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States" title="Penal labor in the United States">prison labour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_codes" title="Slave codes">Slave codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treatment_of_the_enslaved_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Treatment of the enslaved in the United States">Treatment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_trade_in_the_United_States" title="Slave trade in the United States">interregional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_United_States" title="Human trafficking in the United States">Human trafficking</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Bahamas" title="Slavery in the Bahamas">The Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada" title="Slavery in Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_British_and_French_Caribbean" title="Slavery in the British and French Caribbean">Caribbean</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barbados_Slave_Code" title="Barbados Slave Code">Barbados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_British_Virgin_Islands" title="Slavery in the British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Trinidad" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery in Trinidad">Trinidad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Code_Noir" title="Code Noir">Code Noir</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Latin_America" title="Slavery in Latin America">Latin America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil" title="Slavery in Brazil">Brazil</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lei_%C3%81urea" title="Lei Áurea">Lei Áurea</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Colombia" title="Slavery in Colombia">Colombia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Cuba" title="Slavery in Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Haiti" title="Slavery in Haiti">Haiti</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haitian_Revolution" title="Haitian Revolution">revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Restavek" title="Restavek">Restavek</a></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Encomienda" title="Encomienda">Encomienda</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afro%E2%80%93Puerto_Ricans" title="Afro–Puerto Ricans">Puerto Rico</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Asia" title="Slavery in Asia">East, Southeast, and South Asia</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Southeast_Asia" title="Human trafficking in Southeast Asia">Human trafficking in Southeast Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Bhutan" title="Slavery in Bhutan">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Brunei" title="Slavery in Brunei">Brunei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_China" title="Slavery in China">China</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Booi_Aha" title="Booi Aha">Booi Aha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laogai" title="Laogai">Laogai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penal_system_in_China" title="Penal system in China">penal system</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_India" title="Slavery in India">India</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Debt_bondage_in_India" title="Debt bondage in India">Debt bondage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chukri_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Chukri System">Chukri System</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Indonesia" title="Slavery in Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Japan" title="Slavery in Japan">Japan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">comfort women</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Korea" title="Slavery in Korea">Korea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kwalliso" title="Kwalliso">Kwalliso</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Malaysia" title="Slavery in Malaysia">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Maldives" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery in the Maldives">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Mongol_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery in the Mongol Empire">Slavery in the Mongol Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Thailand" title="Slavery in Thailand">Thailand</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_military_and_prostitution_in_South_Korea" title="United States military and prostitution in South Korea">Yankee princess</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Vietnam" title="Slavery in Vietnam">Vietnam</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Oceania" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery in Oceania">Australia and Oceania</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Australia" title="Slavery in Australia">Australia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Australia" title="Human trafficking in Australia">Human trafficking</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackbirding" title="Blackbirding">Blackbirding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_raiding_in_Easter_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave raiding in Easter Island">Slave raiding in Easter Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Papua_New_Guinea" title="Human trafficking in Papua New Guinea">Human trafficking in Papua New Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackbirding_in_Polynesia" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackbirding in Polynesia">Blackbirding in Polynesia</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Europe and North Asia</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_Europe" title="Sex trafficking in Europe">Sex trafficking in Europe</a></li> <li>United Kingdom <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Penal_labour_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Penal labour in the United Kingdom">Penal Labour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain" title="Slavery in Britain">Slavery</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danish_slave_trade" title="Danish slave trade">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Slave_Coast" title="Dutch Slave Coast">Dutch Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule_during_World_War_II" title="Forced labour under German rule during World War II">Germany in World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Malta" title="Slavery in Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrall" title="Thrall">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Poland" title="Slavery in Poland">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Portugal" title="Slavery in Portugal">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Romania" title="Slavery in Romania">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Russia" title="Slavery in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Spain" title="Slavery in Spain">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_slave_trade" title="Swedish slave trade">Sweden</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>North Africa and West Asia</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Afghanistan" title="Slavery in Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Algeria" title="Slavery in Algeria">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Bahrain" title="Slavery in Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Egypt" title="Slavery in Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Middle_East" title="Human trafficking in the Middle East">Human trafficking in the Middle East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Iran" title="Slavery in Iran">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Iraq" title="Slavery in Iraq">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Jordan" title="Slavery in Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Kuwait" title="Slavery in Kuwait">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Lebanon" title="Slavery in Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Libya" title="Slavery in Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Morocco" title="Slavery in Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Oman" title="Slavery in Oman">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Palestine" title="Slavery in Palestine">Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Slavery in Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Syria" title="Slavery in Syria">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Tunisia" title="Slavery in Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Qatar" title="Slavery in Qatar">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Yemen" title="Slavery in Yemen">Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery in the United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Slavery_and_religion" title="Slavery and religion">Religion</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery" title="The Bible and slavery">Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_slavery" title="Christian views on slavery">Christianity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_slavery" title="Catholic Church and slavery">Catholicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mormonism_and_slavery" title="Mormonism and slavery">Mormonism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_views_on_slavery" title="Islamic views on slavery">Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_views_on_slavery" title="Jewish views on slavery">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith_and_slavery" class="mw-redirect" title="Baháʼí Faith and slavery">Baháʼí Faith</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Abolitionism" title="Abolitionism">Opposition and resistance</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abolitionism" title="Abolitionism">Abolitionism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Abolitionism in the United Kingdom">U.K.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" title="Abolitionism in the United States">U.S.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brussels_Anti-Slavery_Conference_1889%E2%80%9390" title="Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90">Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temporary_Slavery_Commission" title="Temporary Slavery Commission">Temporary Slavery Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1926_Slavery_Convention" title="1926 Slavery Convention">1926 Slavery Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Experts_on_Slavery" title="Committee of Experts on Slavery">Committee of Experts on Slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Advisory_Committee_of_Experts_on_Slavery" title="Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery">Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ad_Hoc_Committee_on_Slavery" title="Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery">Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supplementary_Convention_on_the_Abolition_of_Slavery" title="Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery">Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_abolitionists" title="List of abolitionists">Abolitionists</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Egyptian_Slave_Trade_Convention" title="Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention">Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Slavery_International" title="Anti-Slavery International">Anti-Slavery International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_Africa" title="Blockade of Africa">Blockade of Africa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron" title="West Africa Squadron">U.K.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_Slave_Trade_Patrol" title="African Slave Trade 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<li><a href="/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act" title="Slave Trade Act">Slave Trade Acts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_international_law" title="Slavery in international law">International law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Servile_War" title="Third Servile War">Third Servile War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">13th Amendment to the United States Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom" title="Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom">Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abolition_of_slave_trade_in_Persian_gulf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abolition of slave trade in Persian gulf (page does not exist)">Abolition of slave trade in Persian gulf</a> [<a 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Legally slaves could not own anything, but in practice they did acquire <a href="/wiki/Capital_(economics)" title="Capital (economics)">capital</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Mitchell523-6">[6]</a> As legal slavery came to an end, many freed people fully expected to gain ownership of the land they had worked, as some abolitionists had led them to expect.<a href="#cite_note-Mitchell523-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Foner277-7">[7]</a> <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African Americans</a> faced severe discrimination and were maintained as a distinct "racial" group by laws requiring racial segregation and <a href="/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States" title="Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States">prohibiting so-called "miscegenation"</a>.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> Perceived as a job-stealing threat to society—they were a downward force on wages since they usually would work for less than whites—and even more as a dangerous influence on those who remained enslaved, free Negroes were unwelcome in most areas of the United States.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Before the Civil War, most free blacks lived in the North, which had abolished slavery. In some places, they acquired substantial real estate.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> In the South, vagrancy laws had allowed the states to force free Negroes into labor, and sometimes to sell them into slavery.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-WoodsonXli-12">[12]</a> Nevertheless, free Africans across the country performed a variety of occupations, and a small number owned and operated successful farms.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Others <a href="/wiki/Black_Canadians#Underground_Railroad" title="Black Canadians">settled in Upper Canada</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Southern_Ontario" title="Southern Ontario">Southern Ontario</a>), an endpoint of the <a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad" title="Underground Railroad">Underground Railroad</a>, and in <a href="/wiki/Black_Nova_Scotians" title="Black Nova Scotians">Nova Scotia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-WoodsonXli-12">[12]</a> Whites did not agree on how freed people ought to be treated. Some maintained that the land the freedmen had farmed for no pay should be taken from their former owners and given to them. Others wanted them sent "somewhere else"; they opposed the <a href="/wiki/Racial_integration" title="Racial integration">"race"-mixing</a> that allowing them to remain in the U.S. would bring about. Plans for a "colony" of freedmen began in 1801, when <a href="/wiki/James_Monroe" title="James Monroe">James Monroe</a> asked President <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> to help create a penal colony for rebellious blacks.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> The <a href="/wiki/American_Colonization_Society" title="American Colonization Society">American Colonization Society</a> (ACS) formed in 1816 to address the issue of free African Americans through settlement (not resettlement) abroad.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> Although there was discussion of settling freedmen in some undeveloped land in the new western territories, or helping them immigrate to Canada or Mexico, the ACS decided to send them to Africa, to the closest available land (and therefore the cheapest to reach). By 1860, the ACS had settled thousands of <a href="/wiki/History_of_Liberia#Americo-Liberian_rule_(1847–1980)" title="History of Liberia">African Americans in Liberia</a>. But colonization was slow and expensive and of little interest to most African Americans, who had no ties with or interest in Africa, and who said they were no more African than white Americans were British. Mortality from tropical diseases was ghastly, and while the enslaved population was in the millions, settlers to Liberia were in the low thousands. As mass emancipation loomed, there was no consensus about what to do with the millions of soon-to-be-free black slaves.<a href="#cite_note-Dyer55-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper171-18">[18]</a> This issue had long been known to white authorities as "The Negro Problem".<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper171-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> The idea of a land grant to an entire class of people was not as unusual in the 18th and 19th centuries as it seems today. There was so much land that it was often given free to anyone that would farm it. For example, Thomas Jefferson proposed a grant of 50 acres to any free man who did not already have at least that much, in his draft of a revolutionary constitution for Virginia in 1776.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> More recently, various <a href="/wiki/Homestead_Acts" title="Homestead Acts">Homestead Acts</a> were passed between 1862 and 1916, granting 160–640 acres (a quarter section to a full section), depending on the act, and earlier homesteading occurred under statutes such as the <a href="/wiki/Preemption_Act_of_1841" title="Preemption Act of 1841">Preemption Act of 1841</a>. Freedmen were not generally eligible for homesteading because they were not citizens, which changed with the <a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fourteenth Amendment</a> in 1868 when they were granted citizenship, and with the <a href="/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fifteenth Amendment</a>, which in 1870 gave them the right to vote. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="War">War</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: War">edit</a>]</div> As the American Army began to seize property in its war with the South, Congress passed the <a href="/wiki/Confiscation_Act_of_1861" title="Confiscation Act of 1861">Confiscation Act of 1861</a>. This law allowed the military to seize rebel property, including land and slaves. In fact, it reflected the rapidly growing reality of black refugee camps that sprang up around the Union Army. These glaring manifestations of the "Negro Problem" provoked hostility from much of the Union rank-and-file—and necessitated administration by officers.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grand_Contraband_Camp">Grand Contraband Camp</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Grand Contraband Camp">edit</a>]</div> After secession, the Union maintained its control over <a href="/wiki/Fort_Monroe" title="Fort Monroe">Fort Monroe</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Virginia" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton</a> on the coast of Southern Virginia. Escaped slaves rushed to the area, hoping for protection from the Confederate Army. (Even more quickly, the town's white residents <a href="/wiki/White_flight" title="White flight">fled</a> to Richmond.)<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> General <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Butler_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin Butler (politician)">Benjamin Butler</a> set a precedent for Union forces on May 24, 1861, when he refused to surrender escaped slaves to Confederates claiming ownership. Butler declared the slaves <a href="/wiki/Contraband_(American_Civil_War)" title="Contraband (American Civil War)">contraband</a> of war and allowed them to remain with the Union Army.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> By July 1861, there were 300 "contraband" slaves working for rations at Fort Monroe. By the end of July there were 900, and General Butler appointed <a href="/wiki/Edward_L._Pierce" title="Edward L. Pierce">Edward L. Pierce</a> as Commissioner of Negro Affairs.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper170-24">[24]</a> Confederate raiders under General <a href="/wiki/John_B._Magruder" title="John B. Magruder">John B. Magruder</a> burnt the nearby town of <a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Virginia" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton, Virginia</a> on August 7, 1861, but the "contraband" blacks occupied its ruins.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper170-24">[24]</a> They established a shantytown known as the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Contraband_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Contraband Camp">Grand Contraband Camp</a>. Many worked for the Army at a rate of $10.00/month, but these wages were not sufficient for them to make major improvements in housing. Conditions in the Camp grew worse, and Northern humanitarian groups sought to intervene on behalf of its 64,000 residents.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper171b-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Captain C. B. Wilder was appointed to organize a response.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper171b-25">[25]</a> The perceived humanitarian crisis may have hastened Lincoln's plans for colonizing <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele-%C3%A0-Vache" title="Île-à-Vache">Île-à-Vache</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> A plan developed in September 1862 would have relocated refugees en masse to Massachusetts and other northern states.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> This plan—initiated by <a href="/wiki/John_Adams_Dix" title="John Adams Dix">John A. Dix</a> and supported by Captain Wilder and Secretary of War Stanton—drew negative reactions from Republicans who wanted to avoid connecting northward black migration with the newly announced <a href="/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Fear of competition by black workers, as well as generalized racial prejudice, made the prospect of black refugees unpalatable for Massachusetts politicians.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> With support from orders from General <a href="/wiki/Rufus_Saxton" title="Rufus Saxton">Rufus Saxton</a>, General Butler and Captain Wilder pursued local resettlement operations, providing many of the blacks in Hampton with two acres of land and tools with which to work.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper171-18">[18]</a> Others were assigned jobs as servants in the North.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> Various smaller camps and colonies were formed, including the <a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Colony_of_Roanoke_Island" title="Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island">Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island</a>. Hampton was well known as one of the War's first and biggest refugee camps, and served as a sort of model for other settlements.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sea_Islands">Sea Islands</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sea Islands">edit</a>]</div> The Union Army occupied the <a href="/wiki/Sea_Islands" title="Sea Islands">Sea Islands</a> after the November 1861 <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Royal" title="Battle of Port Royal">Battle of Port Royal</a>, leaving the area's many cotton plantations to the black farmers who worked on them. The early liberation of the Sea Island blacks, and the relatively unusual absence of the former white masters, raised the issue of how the South might be organized after the fall of slavery. Lincoln, commented State Department official <a href="/wiki/Adam_Gurowski" title="Adam Gurowski">Adam Gurowski</a>, "is frightened with the success in South Carolina, as in his opinion this success will complicate the question of slavery."<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> In the early days of federal occupation, troops were badly mistreating the island's residents, and had raided plantation supplies of food and clothing. One Union officer was caught preparing to secretly transport a group of blacks to Cuba, in order to sell them as slaves.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> Abuses by Union troops continued even after a stable regime had been established.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gullah_s_carolina_1790.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Gullah_s_carolina_1790.jpg/220px-Gullah_s_carolina_1790.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Gullah_s_carolina_1790.jpg/330px-Gullah_s_carolina_1790.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Gullah_s_carolina_1790.jpg/440px-Gullah_s_carolina_1790.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3981" data-file-height="2573" /></a><figcaption>Gullah slaves had farmed the Sea Islands for several generations.</figcaption></figure> Treasury Secretary <a href="/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase" title="Salmon P. Chase">Salmon P. Chase</a> had in December deployed Colonel William H. Reynolds to collect and sell whatever cotton could be confiscated from the Sea Island plantations.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Soon after, Chase deployed Edward Pierce (after his brief period at Grand Contraband Camp) to assess the situation in <a href="/wiki/Port_Royal_Island" title="Port Royal Island">Port Royal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Pierce found a plantation under strict Army control, paying wages too low to enable economic independence; he also criticized the Army's policy of shipping cotton North to be ginned.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Pierce reported that the black workers were experts in cotton farming but required white managers "to enforce a paternal discipline". He recommended the establishment of a supervised black farming collective to prepare the workers for the responsibilities of citizenship—and to serve as a model for post-slavery labor relations in the South.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-PierceLetter-41">[41]</a> The Treasury Department sought to raise money and in many cases was already leasing occupied territories to Northern capitalists for private management. For Port Royal<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Colonel Thomas had already prepared an arrangement of this type; but Pierce insisted that Port Royal offered the chance to "settle a great social question": namely, whether "when properly organized, and with proper motives set before them, [blacks] will as freemen be as industrious as any race of men are likely to be in this climate."<a href="#cite_note-PierceLetter-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Chase sent Pierce to see President Lincoln. As Pierce later described the encounter: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Mr. Lincoln, who was then chafing under a prospective bereavement, listened for a few moments, and then said, somewhat impatiently, that he did not think he ought to be troubled with such details, that there seemed to be an itching to get negroes into our lines; to which I replied that these negroes were within them by the invitation of no one, being domiciled there before we began occupation. The President then wrote and handed to me the following card : <blockquote>I shall be obliged if the Secretary of the Treasury will in his discretion give Mr. Pierce such instructions in regard to Port Royal contrabands as may seem judicious. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r920966791">.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}</style>A. LINCOLN.</blockquote></blockquote> Pierce accepted this reluctant mandate, but feared that "some unhappy compromise" might compromise his plan to engineer black citizenship.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Port_Royal_Experiment">Port Royal Experiment</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Port Royal Experiment">edit</a>]</div> The collective was established and became known as the <a href="/wiki/Port_Royal_Experiment" title="Port Royal Experiment">Port Royal Experiment</a>: a possible model for black economic activity after slavery. The Experiment attracted support from Northerners like economist <a href="/wiki/Edward_Atkinson_(activist)" title="Edward Atkinson (activist)">Edward Atkinson</a>, who hoped to prove his theory that free labor would be more productive than slave labor.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> More traditional abolitionists like <a href="/wiki/Maria_Weston_Chapman" title="Maria Weston Chapman">Maria Weston Chapman</a> also praised Pierce's plan. Civic groups like the <a href="/wiki/American_Missionary_Association" title="American Missionary Association">American Missionary Association</a> provided enthusiastic assistance.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> These sympathetic Northerners quickly recruited a boatload (53 chosen from a pool of applicants several times larger) of Ivy League and divinity school graduates who set off for Port Royal on March 3, 1862.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> The residents of Port Royal generally resented the military and civilian occupiers, who exhibited racist superiority in varying degrees of overtness.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> Joy turned to sorrow when, on May 12 Union soldiers arrived to draft all able-bodied black men previously liberated on April 13, 1862, by General <a href="/wiki/David_Hunter" title="David Hunter">David Hunter</a> who proclaimed slavery abolished in Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> Hunter kept his regiment even after Lincoln reversed this tri-state emancipation proclamation; but disbanded almost all of it when unable to draw payroll from the War Department.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Black farmers preferred to grow vegetables and catch fish, whereas the missionaries (and other whites on the islands) encouraged <a href="/wiki/King_Cotton" title="King Cotton">monoculture of cotton</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Cash_crop" title="Cash crop">cash crop</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> In the thinking of the latter, civilization would be advanced by incorporating blacks into the consumer economy dominated by Northern manufacturing.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> Meanwhile, various conflicts arose among the missionaries, the Army, and the merchants whom Chase and Reynolds had invited to Port Royal in order to confiscate all that could be sold.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> On balance, however, the white sponsors of the Experiment had perceived positive results; businessman <a href="/wiki/John_Murray_Forbes" title="John Murray Forbes">John Murray Forbes</a> in May 1862 called it "a decided success", announcing that Blacks would indeed work in exchange for wages.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> Secretary of War <a href="/wiki/Edwin_M._Stanton" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin M. Stanton">Edwin M. Stanton</a> appointed General <a href="/wiki/Rufus_Saxton" title="Rufus Saxton">Rufus Saxton</a> as military governor of Port Royal in April 1862, and by December Saxton was agitating for permanent black control over the land. He won support from Stanton, Chase, Sumner, and President Lincoln, but met continuing resistance from a tax commission that wanted to sell the land.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> Saxton also received approval to train a black militia, which formally became the <a href="/wiki/1st_South_Carolina_Volunteers_(Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="1st South Carolina Volunteers (Union)">1st South Carolina Volunteers</a> on January 1, 1863, when the <a href="/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a> legalized its existence.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Landownership_in_the_Sea_Islands">Landownership in the Sea Islands</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Landownership in the Sea Islands">edit</a>]</div> As elsewhere, black workers felt strongly that they had a claim to the lands they worked. The <a href="/wiki/Confiscation_Act_of_1862" title="Confiscation Act of 1862">Confiscation Act of 1862</a> allowed the Treasury Department to sell many captured lands on the grounds of delinquent taxes. All told, the government now claimed 76,775 acres of Sea Island land.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> Auditors arrived in Port Royal and began to assess the estates now occupied by blacks and missionaries.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> The stakes were high: the Sea Island cotton harvest represented a lucrative commodity for Northern investors to control.<a href="#cite_note-Williamson56-59">[59]</a> Most of the whites involved in the project felt that black ownership of the land should be its final result. Saxton—along with journalists including Free South editor James G. Thompson, and missionaries including <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> minister <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mansfield_French&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mansfield French (page does not exist)">Mansfield French</a>—lobbied hard for distribution of the land to black owners.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> In January 1863, Saxton unilaterally halted the Treasury Department's tax sale on the grounds of military necessity.<a href="#cite_note-Williamson56-59">[59]</a> The tax commissioners conducted the auction regardless, selling ten thousand acres of land.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre-p9-61">[61]</a> Eleven plantations went to a consortium ("The Boston Concern") headed by Edward Philbrick, who sold the land in 1865 to black farmers.<a href="#cite_note-Williamson56-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> One black farming collective outbid the outside investors, paying an average of $7.00 per acre for the 470 plantation on which they already lived and worked.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre-p9-61">[61]</a> Overall, the majority of the land was sold to Northern investors and remained under their control.<a href="#cite_note-Williamson56-59">[59]</a> In September 1863, Lincoln announced a plan to auction 60,000 acres of South Carolina land in lots of 320 acres—setting aside 16,000 acres of the land for "heads of families of the African race", who could obtain 20-acre lots sold at $1.25/acre (equivalent to $31 in 2023).<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> Tax Commissioner <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Brisbane_(commissioner)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Brisbane (commissioner) (page does not exist)">William Brisbane</a> envisioned racial integration on the islands, with large plantation owners employing landless blacks.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> But Saxton and French considered the 16,000-acre reserve to be inadequate, and instructed black families to stake claims and build houses on all 60,000 acres of the land.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> French traveled to Washington in December 1863 to lobby for legal confirmation of the plan.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> At French's urging, Chase and Lincoln authorized Sea Island families (and solitary wives of soldiers in the Union Army) to claim 40-acre plots. Other individuals over the age of 21 would be allowed to claim 20 acres. These plots would be purchased at $1.25 per acre, with 40% paid upfront and 60% paid later. With a requirement of six months' prior residency, the order functionally restricted settlement to blacks, missionaries, and others who were already involved in the Experiment.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> Claims to land under the new plan began to arrive immediately, but Commissioner Brisbane ignored them, hoping for another reversal of the decision in Washington.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> Chase did indeed reverse his position in February, restoring the plan for a tax sale.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> The sale took place in late February, with land selling for an average price of more than $11/acre (equivalent to $214 in 2023).<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> The sale provoked outcry from freedpeople who had already claimed land according to Chase's December order.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Negroes_of_Savannah"">"Negroes of Savannah"</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: "Negroes of Savannah"">edit</a>]</div> Major General <a href="/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman" title="William Tecumseh Sherman">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea" title="Sherman's March to the Sea">March to the Sea</a>" brought a massive regiment of the Union Army to the Georgia coast in December 1864. Accompanying the Army were an estimated ten thousand black refugees, former slaves. This group was already suffering from starvation and disease.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> Many former slaves had become disillusioned by the Union Army, having suffered pillaging, rape, and other abuses.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> They arrived in Savannah "after long marches and severe privations, weary, famished, sick, and almost naked.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> On December 19, Sherman dispatched many of these slaves to <a href="/wiki/Hilton_Head_Island,_South_Carolina" title="Hilton Head Island, South Carolina">Hilton Head</a>, an island already serving as refugee camp. Saxton reported on December 22 "Every cabin and house on these islands is filled to overflowing—I have some 15,000." 700 more arrived on Christmas.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> On January 11, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton arrived in Savannah with Quartermaster General <a href="/wiki/Montgomery_C._Meigs_(1816%E2%80%931892)" class="mw-redirect" title="Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892)">Montgomery C. Meigs</a> and other officials. This group met with Generals Sherman and Saxton to discuss the refugee crisis. They decided, in turn, to consult leaders from the local Black community and ask them: "What do you want for your own people?" A meeting was duly arranged.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Negroes_of_Savannah" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Negroes of Savannah">Negroes of Savannah</a></div></div></div> </div> At 8:00 PM on January 12, 1865, Sherman met with a group of twenty people, many of whom had been slaves for most of their lives. The blacks of Savannah had seized the opportunity of emancipation to strengthen their community's institutions, and they had strong political feelings.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> They selected one spokesperson: <a href="/wiki/Garrison_Frazier" title="Garrison Frazier">Garrison Frazier</a>, the 67-year-old former pastor of Third African Baptist. In the late 1850s, he had for $1,000 bought freedom for himself and his wife.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> Frazier had consulted with the refugees as well as the other representatives. He told Sherman: "The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor." Frazier suggested that young men would serve the government in fighting the Rebels, and that therefore "the women and children and old men" would have to work this land. Almost all of those present agreed to request land grants for autonomous black communities, on the grounds that racial hatred would prevent economic advancement for blacks in mixed areas.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sherman's_Special_Field_Orders,_No._15">Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_Special_Field_Orders,_No._15" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15">Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15</a></div></div></div> </div> <a href="/wiki/Sherman%27s_Special_Field_Orders,_No._15" class="mw-redirect" title="Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15">Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15</a>, issued on January 16, 1865, instructed officers to settle these refugees on the Sea Islands and inland: 400,000 total acres divided into 40-acre plots.<a href="#cite_note-Gates-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> Though <a href="/wiki/Mule" title="Mule">mules</a> (beasts of burden used for plowing) were not mentioned,<a href="#cite_note-Gates-2">[2]</a> some of its beneficiaries did receive them from the army.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> Such plots were colloquially known as "Blackacres". Sherman's orders specifically allocated "the islands from <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston</a>, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the <a href="/wiki/St._Johns_River" title="St. Johns River">St. Johns River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>." The order specifically prohibits whites from settling in this area. Saxton, who, with Stanton, helped to craft the document, was promoted to major general and charged with oversight of the new settlement.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> On February 3, Saxton addressed a large freedpeople's meeting at Second African Baptist, announcing the order and outlining preparations for new settlement.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> By June 1865, about 40,000 freedpeople were settled on 435,000 acres (180,000 ha) in the Sea Islands.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> The Special Field Orders were issued by Sherman, not the federal government with regards to all former slaves, and he issued similar ones "throughout the campaign to assure the harmony of action in the area of operations."<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> It was claimed by some that these settlements were never intended to last. However, this was never the understanding of the settlers—nor of General Saxton, who said he asked Sherman to cancel the order unless it was meant to be permanent.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> In practice, the areas of land settled were quite variable. James Chaplin Beecher observed that the "so called 40 acre tract[s] vary in size from eight acres to (450) four hundred and fifty."<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> Some areas were settled by groups: <a href="/wiki/Skidaway_Island,_Georgia" title="Skidaway Island, Georgia">Skidaway Island</a> was colonized by a group of over 1000 people, including Reverend <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_L._Houston" title="Ulysses L. Houston">Ulysses L. Houston</a>.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Significance">Significance</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Significance">edit</a>]</div> The Sea Islands project reflected a policy of "40 acres and a mule" as the basis for post-slavery economics. Especially in 1865, the precedent it set was highly visible to newly free blacks seeking land of their own.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> Freedpeople from across the region flocked to the area in search of land.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre47-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-Webster94-95">[95]</a> The result was refugee camps afflicted by disease and short on supplies.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre47-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> Especially after Sherman's Orders, the coastal settlements generated enthusiasm for a new society that would supplant the slave system. Reported one journalist in April 1865: "It was the Plymouth colony repeating itself. They agreed if any others came to join them, they should have equal privileges. So blooms the Mayflower on the South Atlantic Coast."<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wage_labor_system">Wage labor system</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Wage labor system">edit</a>]</div> Beginning in occupied Louisiana under General <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_P._Banks" title="Nathaniel P. Banks">Nathaniel P. Banks</a>, the military developed a wage-labor system for cultivating large areas of land. This system—which took effect with Lincoln and Stanton's blessing soon after the <a href="/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a> legitimized contracts with the freedpeople—offered ironclad one-year contracts to freedpeople. The contract promised $10/month as well as provisions and medical care. The system was soon also adopted by General <a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_Thomas" title="Lorenzo Thomas">Lorenzo Thomas</a> in Mississippi.<a href="#cite_note-Belz46-98">[98]</a> Sometimes land came under the control of Treasury officials. Jurisdictional disputes erupted between the Treasury Department and the military.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> Criticism of Treasury Department profiteering by General <a href="/wiki/John_Eaton_(general)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Eaton (general)">John Eaton</a> and journalists who witnessed the new form of plantation labor influenced public opinion in the North and pressured Congress to support direct control of land by freedmen.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> The Treasury Department, particularly as Secretary Chase prepared to seek the <a href="/wiki/1864_Republican_National_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="1864 Republican National Convention">Republican nomination in 1864</a>, accused the military of treating the freedpeople inhumanely.<a href="#cite_note-Belz46-98">[98]</a> Lincoln decided in favor of military rather than Treasury jurisdiction, and the wage labor system became more deeply established.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> Abolitionist critics of the policy called it no better than <a href="/wiki/Serf" class="mw-redirect" title="Serf">serfdom</a>.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Davis_Bend">Davis Bend</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Davis Bend">edit</a>]</div> One of the largest black landownership projects took place at <a href="/wiki/Davis_Bend,_Mississippi" title="Davis Bend, Mississippi">Davis Bend, Mississippi</a>, the 11,000-acre site of plantations owned by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Emory_Davis" title="Joseph Emory Davis">Joseph Davis</a> and his famous younger brother <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" title="Jefferson Davis">Jefferson</a>, president of the Confederacy. Influenced by some aspects of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Owen" title="Robert Owen">Robert Owen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a>, Joseph Davis had established the experimental 4000-acre <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Plantation" title="Hurricane Plantation">Hurricane Plantation</a> in 1827 at Davis Bend.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> Davis allowed several hundred slaves to eat nutritious food, live in well-built cottages, receive medical care, and resolve their disputes in a weekly "Hall of Justice" court. His motto was: "The less people are governed, the more submissive they will be to control."<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> Davis relied heavily on the managerial skills of <a href="/wiki/Ben_Montgomery" title="Ben Montgomery">Ben Montgomery</a>, a well-educated slave who conducted much of the plantation's business. The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh" title="Battle of Shiloh">Battle of Shiloh</a> began a period of turmoil (1862–1863), at Davis Bend, although its black residents continued farming. The plantation was occupied by two companies of black Union troops in December 1863. Under the command of Colonel Samuel Thomas, these soldiers began to fortify the area. General <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> had expressed a desire to make of the Davis plantations "a negro paradise." Thomas began to lease the land to black tenants for the 1864 crop season.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a><a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> Black refugees who had gathered in Vicksburg moved en masse to Davis Bend under the auspices of the Freedman's Department (an agency created by the military prior to Congressional authorization of the "Freedmen's Bureau", discussed below).<a href="#cite_note-Oubre-p17-107">[107]</a> Davis Bend was caught in the middle of the turf war between the military and the Treasury Department. In February 1864, the Treasury re-confiscated 2000 acres of Davis Bend, restoring them to white owners who had sworn loyalty oaths.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> It also leased 1,200 acres to Northern investors.<a href="#cite_note-Hermann50-109">[109]</a> Although Thomas resisted instructions to prevent the free blacks from farming, General Eaton ordered him to comply. Eaton also ordered Thomas to confiscate farming equipment held by blacks, on the grounds that—because Mississippi law banned slaves from owning property—they must have stolen such possessions.<a href="#cite_note-Hermann50-109">[109]</a> The Treasury Department sought to charge the plantation workers a fee for using the cotton gin.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre-p17-107">[107]</a> The residents of Davis Bend objected strenuously to these measures. In a petition signed by 56 farmers (including Montgomery) and published in the New Orleans Tribune:<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> <blockquote>At the commencement of our present year, this plantation was, in compliance with an order of our Post Commander, deprived of horses, mules, oxen and farming utensils of every description, very much of which had been captured and brought into Union lines by the undersigned; in consequence of which deprivations, we were, of course, reduced to the necessity of buying everything necessary for farming, and having thus far succeeded in performing by far the most expensive and laborious part of our work, we are prepared to accomplish the ginning, pressing, weighing, marking, consigning, etc., in a business-like order if allowed to do so.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Freedmen's_Bureau">Freedmen's Bureau</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Freedmen's Bureau">edit</a>]</div> From 1863 to 1865, Congress debated what policies it might adopt to address the social issues that would confront the South after the war. The Freedmen's Aid Society pushed for a "Bureau of Emancipation" to assist in the economic transition away from slavery. It used <a href="/wiki/Port_Royal" title="Port Royal">Port Royal</a> as evidence that blacks could live and work on their own.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> <a href="/wiki/Land_reform" title="Land reform">Land reform</a> was often discussed, though some objected that too much capital would be required to ensure the success of black farmers.<a href="#cite_note-WEBDB222-112">[112]</a> On January 31, 1865, the House of Representatives approved the <a href="/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">13th Amendment</a>, which outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude except in the case of punishment. Congress continued to debate the economic and social status of the free population, with land reform identified as critical to realizing black freedom.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> A bill drafted in <a href="/wiki/United_States_congressional_conference_committee" title="United States congressional conference committee">conference committee</a> to provide limited land tenure for one year while authorizing military supervision of freedmen was rejected in the Senate by abolitionists who thought it did not do justice to the freedmen.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> A six-person committee quickly wrote "an entirely new bill" which substantially increased its promise to the freedmen.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> This stronger version of the bill passed both houses on March 3, 1865. With this bill, Congress <a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau_bills" title="Freedmen's Bureau bills">established</a> the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Refugees,_Freedmen,_and_Abandoned_Lands" class="mw-redirect" title="Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands">Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands</a> under the War Department. The Bureau had authority to provide supplies for refugees—and an unfunded mandate to redistribute land, in parcels of up to 40 acres:<a href="#cite_note-Oubre21-117">[117]</a> <blockquote>Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner, under the direction of the President, shall have authority to set apart, for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen, such tracts of land within the insurrectionary states as shall have been abandoned, or to which the United States shall have acquired title by confiscation or sale, or otherwise, and to every male citizen, whether refugee or freedman, as aforesaid, there shall be assigned not more than forty acres of such land, and the person to whom it was so assigned shall be protected in the use and enjoyment of the land for the term of three years at an annual rent not exceeding six per centum upon the value of such land, as it was appraised by the state authorities in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, for the purpose of taxation, and in case no such appraisal can be found, then the rental shall be based upon the estimated value of the land in said year, to be ascertained in such manner as the commissioner may by regulation prescribe. At the end of said term, or at any time during said term, the occupants of any parcels so assigned may purchase the land and receive such title thereto as the United States can convey, upon paying therefor the value of the land, as ascertained and fixed for the purpose of determining the annual rent aforesaid.</blockquote> The bill thus established a system in which Southern blacks could lease abandoned and confiscated land, with yearly rent at 6% (or less) of the land's value (assessed for tax purposes in 1860). After three years, they would have the option to buy this land at full price. The Bureau in charge, which became known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was placed under the continuing supervision of the military because Congress anticipated the need to defend black settlements from White Southerners.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre21-117">[117]</a> The bill mandated institutionalized black landownership of the same land that had formerly relied on their unpaid labor.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> After <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Assassination of Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln's assassination</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" title="Andrew Johnson">Andrew Johnson</a> became president. On May 29, 1865, Johnson issued an amnesty proclamation to ordinary Southern citizens who swore loyalty oaths, promising not only political immunity but also return of confiscated property. (Johnson's proclamation excluded Confederate politicians, military officers, and landowners with property worth more than $20,000.) General <a href="/wiki/Oliver_O._Howard" class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver O. Howard">O. O. Howard</a>, chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, requested an interpretation from Attorney General <a href="/wiki/James_Speed" title="James Speed">James Speed</a> regarding how this proclamation would affect the Freedmen's Bureau mandate. Speed replied on June 22, 1865, that the Bureau Commissioner:<a href="#cite_note-Oubre31-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> <blockquote>... has authority, under the direction of the President, to set apart for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen the lands in question; and he is required to assign to every male of that class of persons, not more than forty acres of such lands.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Circular_#13">Circular #13</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Circular #13">edit</a>]</div> Howard acted quickly based on the authorization from Speed, ordering an inventory of lands available for redistribution and resisting white Southerners' attempts to reclaim property.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> At its peak in 1865, the Freedmen's Bureau controlled 800,000–900,000 acres of plantation lands previously belonging to slave owners.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> This area represented 0.2% of land in the South; ultimately the Johnson proclamation required the Bureau to re-allocate most of it to its former owners.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre31-119">[119]</a> On July 28, 1865, Howard issued "Circular no. 13", a directive within the Freedmen's Bureau to issue land to refugees and freedmen. Circular no. 13 explicitly instructed Bureau agents to prioritize the Congressional mandate for land distribution over Johnson's amnesty declaration. Its final section clarified: "The pardon of the President will not be understood to extend to the surrender of abandoned or confiscated property which by law has been 'set apart for Refugees and Freedmen'".<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> With Circular #13, land redistribution was an official policy for the entire South, and understood as such by army officers.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> After issuing Circular 13, however, Howard, seemingly unaware of how significant and controversial his instructions might prove, left Washington for a vacation in Maine.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> President Johnson and others began to counteract the Circular almost immediately. After Johnson ordered the Bureau to restore the estate of a complaining Tennessee plantation owner, General Joseph S. Fullerton suggested to at least one subordinate that Circular #13 "will not be observed for the present".<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> When Howard returned to Washington, Johnson ordered him to write a new Circular that would respect his policy of land restoration. Johnson rejected Howard's draft and wrote his own version, which he issued on September 12 as Circular #15—including Howard's name.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> Circular #15 established strict criteria for designating a property as "officially confiscated" and had the effect in many places of ending land redistribution completely.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> Especially during the six-week period between Circular #13 and Circular #15, '40 acres and a mule' (along with other supplies necessary for farming) represented a common promise of Freedmen's Bureau agents. <a href="/wiki/Clinton_B._Fisk" title="Clinton B. Fisk">Clinton B. Fisk</a>, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Kentucky and Tennessee, had announced at a black political assembly: "They must not only have freedom but homes of their own, thirty or forty acres, with mules, cottages, and schoolhouses etc." A Bureau administrator in Virginia proposed leasing to each family a 40-acre plot of land, a pair of mules, harnesses, a cart, tools, seeds, and food supplies. The family would pay for these supplies after growing crops and selling them.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Black_Codes">Black Codes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Black Codes">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)" title="Black Codes (United States)">Black Codes (United States)</a></div> Bureau agents encountered legal problems in allocating land to freedpeople as a result of the "Black Codes" passed by Southern legislatures in late 1865 and 1866. Some of the new laws prevented black people from owning or leasing land. The Freedmen's Bureau generally treated the black Codes as invalid, based on federal legislation. However, the Bureau was not always able to enforce its interpretation after the Union Army had substantially demobilized.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colonization_and_homesteading">Colonization and homesteading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Colonization and homesteading">edit</a>]</div> During and after the war, politicians, generals and others envisioned a variety of colonization plans that would have provided real estate to black families. Although the <a href="/wiki/American_Colonization_Society" title="American Colonization Society">American Colonization Society</a> had been colonizing more people in Liberia and receiving more donations (almost one million dollars in the 1850s), it did not have the means to respond to mass emancipation.<a href="#cite_note-Dyer55-17">[17]</a> A 2020 study contrasted the successful distribution of free land to former slaves in the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_(1794%E2%80%931907)" title="Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)">Cherokee Nation</a> with the failure to give free land to former slaves in the Confederacy. The study found that even though levels of inequality in 1860 were similar in the Cherokee Nation and the Confederacy, former black slaves prospered in the Cherokee Nation over the next decades. The Cherokee Nation had lower levels of racial inequality, higher incomes for black people, higher literacy rates among black people, and greater school attendance rates among black people.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_colonization_plans">Foreign colonization plans</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Foreign colonization plans">edit</a>]</div> Lincoln had long <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery#Colonization" title="Abraham Lincoln and slavery">supported colonization</a> as a plausible solution to the problem of slavery, and pursued colonization plans throughout his presidency.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-Magness4-137">[137]</a> In 1862, Congress approved $600,000 to fund Lincoln's plan for colonizing blacks "in a climate congenial to them", and granted Lincoln broad executive powers to orchestrate colonization.<a href="#cite_note-Magness4-137">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> Lincoln immediately created an Emigration Office within the Department of the Interior and instructed the State Department to acquire suitable land.<a href="#cite_note-Magness4-137">[137]</a> The first <a href="/wiki/Linconia" title="Linconia">major plan</a> considered would have sent employed free blacks as coal miners in <a href="/wiki/Chiriqu%C3%AD_Province" title="Chiriquí Province">Chiriquí Province</a>, Panama (then part of <a href="/wiki/Gran_Colombia" title="Gran Colombia">Gran Colombia</a>). Volunteers were promised 40 acres of land and a job in the mines; Senator <a href="/wiki/Samuel_C._Pomeroy" title="Samuel C. Pomeroy">Samuel C. Pomeroy</a>, whom Lincoln had appointed to oversee the plan, had also purchased mules, yokes, tools, wagons, seeds, and other supplies to support a potential colony. Pomeroy accepted 500 of the 13,700 people who applied for the job. However, the plan was canceled by the end of the year, thanks to a discovery that Chiriquí's coal was of poor quality.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> Like Liberia, an independent black nation, Haiti was also considered a good place to colonize freedpeople from the U.S.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> As the Chiriquí plan was hitting its stride in 1862, Lincoln was developing another plan to colonize the small island of <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_%C3%A0_Vache" class="mw-redirect" title="Île à Vache">Île à Vache</a> near Haiti.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> Lincoln struck a deal with businessman Bernard Kock, who had obtained rights to lease the island for cultivation and wood-cutting.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> A total of 453 Blacks, mostly young men from the <a href="/wiki/Tidewater_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Tidewater region">Tidewater region</a> around occupied <a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Virginia" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton, Virginia</a>, volunteered to colonize the island.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> On April 14, 1863, they left Fort Monroe in the "Ocean Ranger".<a href="#cite_note-Lockett439-147">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> Kock confiscated all of the money possessed by the colonists and did not pay their wages.<a href="#cite_note-Lockett439-147">[147]</a> Initial reports suggested dire conditions, though these were later disputed. A number of colonists died in the first year.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> 292 survivors from the original group remained on the island and 73 had moved to <a href="/wiki/Aux_Cayes" class="mw-redirect" title="Aux Cayes">Aux Cayes</a>; most were restored to the U.S. by a mission of the Navy in February 1864.<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> Congress rescinded Lincoln's colonization authority in July 1863.<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> Lincoln continued to pursue colonization plans, particularly in the <a href="/wiki/British_West_Indies" title="British West Indies">British West Indies</a>, but none came to fruition. The American Colonization Society settled a few hundred people in Liberia during the war, and several thousand more in the five years following.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_colonization_plans">Domestic colonization plans</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Domestic colonization plans">edit</a>]</div> Confederate general <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest" title="Nathan Bedford Forrest">Nathan Bedford Forrest</a> had proposed in 1865 before the end of the war to hire black soldiers and freedmen in constructing a railroad for the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company, paying them with $1 (~$20.00 in 2023)/day and land along the railway line.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre73-154">[154]</a> This proposal later gained the endorsements of Sherman, Howard, Johnson, and Arkansas Governor <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Murphy" title="Isaac Murphy">Isaac Murphy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Hahn410-155">[155]</a> Howard transported several hundred freedmen from Alabama to Arkansas for work on the line. He appointed <a href="/wiki/Edward_Ord" title="Edward Ord">Edward Ord</a> to supervise the project and protect the freedmen from Forrest.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre73-154">[154]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Southern_Homesteading_Act">Southern Homesteading Act</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Southern Homesteading Act">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Southern_Homestead_Act_of_1866" title="Southern Homestead Act of 1866">Southern Homestead Act of 1866</a></div> As it became clear that the pool of land available for blacks was rapidly shrinking, the Union discussed various proposals for how blacks might resettle and eventually own their own land. In Virginia, the mass of landless blacks represented a growing crisis—soon to be exacerbated by the return of 10,000 black soldiers from Texas. Concerned about a possible insurrection, Colonel Orlando Brown (head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia) proposed relocating Virginia's blacks to Texas or Florida. Brown proposed that the federal government reserve 500,000 acres in Florida for colonization by the soldiers and 50,000 other free blacks from Virginia. Howard took Brown's proposal to Congress.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a><a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> In December 1865, Congress began to debate the "Second Freedmen's Bureau bill", which would have opened three million acres of unoccupied public land in Florida, Mississippi, and Arkansas for homesteading.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> (An amendment to allow black homesteading on public lands in the North was defeated.) Congress passed the bill in February 1866 but could not override Johnson's veto.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> (Congress passed a more limited "Second Freedmen's Bureau Bill" in July 1866, and did override Johnson's veto.) Howard continued to push for Congress to appropriate land for allocation to freedmen. With support from <a href="/wiki/Thaddeus_Stevens" title="Thaddeus Stevens">Thaddeus Stevens</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Fessenden" class="mw-redirect" title="William Fessenden">William Fessenden</a>, Congress began to debate a new bill for black settlement of public lands in the South. The result was the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Homestead_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Homestead Act">Southern Homestead Act</a>, which opened 46,398,544.87 acres of land in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to homesteading; initially 80-acre parcels (half-quarter section) until June 1868, and thereafter 160-acre parcels (quarter section). Johnson signed this bill and it went into effect on June 21, 1866. Until January 1, 1867, the bill specified, only free blacks and loyal whites would be allowed access to these lands.<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> Howard, concerned about competition with Confederates that would begin in 1867, ordered Bureau agents to inform free blacks about the Homesteading Act.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> Local commissioners did not disseminate the information widely,<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> and many freedpeople were unwilling to venture into unknown territory, with insufficient supplies, based only on the promise of land after five years.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> Those who did attempt homesteading encountered unreliable bureaucracy that often did not comply with federal law. They also faced extremely harsh conditions, usually on low quality land that had been rejected by white settlers in years past. Nevertheless, free blacks entered about 6,500 claims to homesteads; about 1000 of these eventually resulted in property certificates.<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Outcomes">Outcomes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Outcomes">edit</a>]</div> Southern landowners regained control over almost all of the land they had claimed before the war. The national dialogue about land ownership as a key to success for freed people gave way (in the sphere of white politics and media) to the implementation of a plantation wage system. Under pressure from Johnson and other pro-capital politicians in the North, and from almost all of white society in the South, the Freedmen's Bureau was transformed from a protector of land rights to an enforcer of wage labor.<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> Free blacks in the South widely believed that all land would be redistributed to those who had worked on it. They also felt strongly that they had a right to own this land.<a href="#cite_note-Foner277-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> Many expected this event to occur by Christmas 1865 or New Year's 1866.<a href="#cite_note-Wilson55-167">[167]</a><a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a><a href="#cite_note-WEBDB603-169">[169]</a> Although the freedpeople formed this belief in response to the policies of the Freedmen's Bureau and Circular #13, their hopes were soon downplayed as superstition akin to belief in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus" title="Santa Claus">Santa Claus</a>.<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> Hope for "40 acres and a mule" specifically was prevalent beginning in early 1865. The expectation of "40 acres" came from the explicit terms of Sherman's Field Order and the Freedmen's Bureau bill. The "mule" may have been added simply as an obvious necessity for achieving prosperity through agriculture.<a href="#cite_note-Webster94-95">[95]</a> ("Forty acres" was a slogan, which though it did appear often in formal declarations, represented a wide variety of different arrangements for land ownership and farming.)<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> A counter-rumor spread among Southern whites that when the land was not redistributed on Christmas, angry blacks would launch a violent insurrection. Alabama and Mississippi passed laws forming White <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary">paramilitary</a> groups, which violently disarmed free black people.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a> According to historian Donald R. Shaffer: <blockquote>The fact was, however, that not all African Americans were enthusiastic about land redistribution. The black elite in the South, which disproportionately consisted of those who had been free before the war and the lightskinned, tended to emphasize suffrage and equal rights over economic issues. Consisting of property owners, or men who realistically aspired to buy property one day, these black men tended to oppose land confiscation and redistribution. They made common cause with white Republicans on this issue, few of whom supported confiscating land from ex-Confederates—even among the Radical Republicans. The fact that members of the elite predominated among black officeholders during Reconstruction also meant they rarely pushed this issue in Congress or state legislatures (not that it had much chance of passing even if they had, due to white majorities in these bodies). Hence, most African Americans during Reconstruction did not achieve the dramatic economic progress comparable to that demonstrated by their race in politics.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wage_labor">Wage labor</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Wage labor">edit</a>]</div> Southern farm owners complained that because they were waiting for land, the newly free blacks would not readily sign long-term labor contracts.<a href="#cite_note-Wilson55-167">[167]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> South Carolina Governor <a href="/wiki/James_Lawrence_Orr" title="James Lawrence Orr">James Lawrence Orr</a> asked Johnson in 1866 to continue pushing his land policy, writing that "complete restoration will restore complete harmony".<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a> Black hopes for land came to be seen as a major barrier to economic productivity, and forces from both South and North worked hard to dispel them.<a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a> Southern governments passed "Black Codes" to prevent blacks from owning or leasing land, and to restrict their freedom of movement.<a href="#cite_note-McKenzie69-180">[180]</a><a href="#cite_note-181">[181]</a> Agents of the Freedmen's Bureau now told blacks that redistribution was impossible and that they would need to perform wage labor to survive. If they could not persuade people to sign contracts, they would insist forcefully.<a href="#cite_note-182">[182]</a> Thomas Conway, the Bureau Commissioner in Louisiana, ordered: "Hire them out! Cut wood! Do anything to avoid a state of idleness."<a href="#cite_note-183">[183]</a> Even Rufus Saxton, who campaigned actively for black property in the Sea Islands, issued a Circular instructing his agents to dispel the rumor of redistribution at New Year's 1866.<a href="#cite_note-Webster94-95">[95]</a> (The unfunded Bureau drew its own finances from profits generated by freedpeople under contract.)<a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a> Although some Whites continued to press for colonization, most now believed that black labor could be recuperated through the wage system.<a href="#cite_note-McKenzie69-180">[180]</a> According to many historians, economic negotiations between blacks and whites in the South thus unfolded within the parameters dictated by the Johnson administration.<a href="#cite_note-185">[185]</a> Southern plantation owners pushed blacks toward servitude, while the Republican Congress pushed for free wage labor and civil rights.<a href="#cite_note-186">[186]</a> Eventually, under this framework, <a href="/wiki/Sharecropping" title="Sharecropping">sharecropping</a> emerged as the dominant mode of production.<a href="#cite_note-187">[187]</a> Some historians, such as Robert McKenzie, have challenged the prevalence of this "standard scenario" and argued that land ownership fluctuated significantly during the 1870s.<a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a> Black land ownership did increase across the South.<a href="#cite_note-WEBDB603-169">[169]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tidewater_Virginia">Tidewater Virginia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Tidewater Virginia">edit</a>]</div> Many blacks who had settled on property surrounding Hampton were forced to leave by various means.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper175-189">[189]</a> These included Johnson's aggressive restoration policy, Black Codes passed by the Virginia legislature, and with vigilante enforcement by returning Confederates.<a href="#cite_note-190">[190]</a> Union troops also forcefully evicted settlers, sometimes provoking violent standoffs; many blacks came to trust the Freedmen's Bureau no more than they did the Rebels.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper175-189">[189]</a><a href="#cite_note-191">[191]</a> In 1866 Tidewater's refugee camps were still full, and many of their residents were sick and dying. Relations with Northern and Southern whites had become violently hostile. The whites (military occupiers and local residents) agreed on a plan to deport the freedpeople back to their counties of origin.<a href="#cite_note-192">[192]</a> After the turbulence of restoration, land ownership steadily increased. Hampton already had at least some black landowners, such as the family of <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> veteran <a href="/wiki/Caesar_Tarrant" title="Caesar Tarrant">Caesar Tarrant</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper166-193">[193]</a> In 1860, about eight free Negroes owned land in Hampton.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper166-193">[193]</a> By 1870, approximately 121 free Blacks owned land in the area.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper-p177-194">[194]</a> Those who owned land before the war expanded their holdings.<a href="#cite_note-195">[195]</a> Some of the blacks in Hampton formed a <a href="/wiki/Community_land_trust" title="Community land trust">community land trust</a> called Lincoln's Land Association and purchased several hundred acres of surrounding land.<a href="#cite_note-196">[196]</a> Land for the Hampton Institute (later <a href="/wiki/Hampton_University" title="Hampton University">Hampton University</a>), was acquired from 1867 to 1872 with assistance from <a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Whipple_(missionary)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Whipple (missionary) (page does not exist)">George Whipple</a> of the <a href="/wiki/American_Missionary_Association" title="American Missionary Association">American Missionary Association</a>.<a href="#cite_note-197">[197]</a><a href="#cite_note-198">[198]</a> Whipple also helped to sell 44 individual lots to black owners.<a href="#cite_note-Bonekemper-p177-194">[194]</a> Many freedpeople could not afford to purchase land immediately after the war but earned money in jobs outside farming such as fishing and oystering. Black land ownership thus increased even faster (though not for everyone) during the 1870s.<a href="#cite_note-Medford576-199">[199]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Charles_City_County,_Virginia" title="Charles City County, Virginia">Charles City County</a>, three-quarters of black farm workers owned their own farms, with an average size of 36 acres.<a href="#cite_note-Medford576-199">[199]</a> In <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Virginia" title="York County, Virginia">York County</a>, 50% owned their farms, which averaged 20 acres.<a href="#cite_note-200">[200]</a> (Statedwide, the number of landowners was high, but the average size of land was only 4 acres.)<a href="#cite_note-Engs178-201">[201]</a> These relatively small farms, on relatively poor land, did not generate enormous profits.<a href="#cite_note-Engs178-201">[201]</a><a href="#cite_note-202">[202]</a> However, they did constitute a base of economic power, and blacks from this region held political office at a high rate.<a href="#cite_note-203">[203]</a><a href="#cite_note-204">[204]</a> Survivors of the camps also achieved a high level of land ownership and business success in the town of Hampton itself.<a href="#cite_note-205">[205]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sea_Islands_2">Sea Islands</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Sea Islands">edit</a>]</div> The May 29 amnesty proclamation did not apply to many <a href="/wiki/Sea_Islands" title="Sea Islands">Sea Islands</a> landowners; however, most of these had secured special pardons directly from Johnson.<a href="#cite_note-206">[206]</a> General Rufus Saxton was overwhelmed with ownership claims for properties in the "Sherman Reserve".<a href="#cite_note-207">[207]</a> Saxton wrote to Howard on September 5, 1865, asking him to protect black landownership on the Sea Islands:<a href="#cite_note-208">[208]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">General, I have the honor to report that the old owners of the lands on the Sea Islands, are making strong efforts to regain possession of them. These Islands were set apart for the colonization of the freedmen, by General Sherman's Special Field Order no. 15: Head Quarters Military Division of the Mississippi: In pursuance of this Order, which was issued as a military necessity, with the full approval and sanction of the Honorable Secretary of War, I, as you are already aware, have colonized some forty (40) thousand Freedmen, on forty (40) acre Tracts. promising them that they should have promissory titles to the same. I consider that the faith of the Government is solemnly pledged to these people, who have been faithful to it. and that we have no right now to dispossess them of their lands. I believe that Congress will decide that General Sherman's Order has all the binding effects of a Statute, and that Mr. Stanton will sustain you in not giving up any of these lands to their late owners. I respectfully ask that this Order which I have carried out in good faith, Shall now be enforced, and that no part or parcel of the lands which have been disposed of under its just provisions, shall, under any circumstances, be restored to the former owners. It seems to me not as wise or prudent to do injustice to those who have always been loyal and true, in order to be lenient to those who have done their best to destroy the nation's life.</blockquote> Circular no. 15, issued days later, led the land's former owners to increase their efforts. Saxton continued to resist, passing their written requests to Howard with the comment:<a href="#cite_note-209">[209]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">The freedmen were promised the protection of the Government in their possession. This order was issued under a great military necessity with the approval of the War Department. I was appointed the executive officer to carry it out. More than forty thousand destitute freedmen have been provided with homes under its promises. I cannot break faith with them now by recommending the restoration of any of these lands. In my opinion this order of General Sherman is as binding as a statute.</blockquote> Johnson dispatched Howard to the Islands, with instructions to broker a "mutually satisfactory" settlement. Howard understood that this implied a complete restoration of pre-war ownership.<a href="#cite_note-210">[210]</a> He informed the islanders of Johnson's intention. But (with support from Stanton, who felt comfortable with a literal interpretation of the phrase "mutually satisfactory")<a href="#cite_note-211">[211]</a><a href="#cite_note-212">[212]</a> appointed a sympathetic captain, Alexander P. Ketchum, to form a commission overseeing the transition.<a href="#cite_note-213">[213]</a> Ketchum and Saxton proceeded to resist resettlement claims by Confederate whites.<a href="#cite_note-Williamson81-214">[214]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Protest_of_the_Freedmen_of_Edisto_Island_to_General_Howard,_1865" title="Search Wikisource"><img alt="Search Wikisource" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></a></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: <div style="margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 4px;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Protest_of_the_Freedmen_of_Edisto_Island_to_General_Howard,_1865" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Protest of the Freedmen of Edisto Island to General Howard, 1865">Protest of the Freedmen of Edisto Island to General Howard, 1865</a></div><div style="margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 4px;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Protest_of_the_Freedmen_of_Edisto_Island_to_President_Johnson,_1865" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Protest of the Freedmen of Edisto Island to President Johnson, 1865">Protest of the Freedmen of Edisto Island to President Johnson, 1865</a></div></div></div> </div> The settlers formed a <a href="/wiki/Solidarity" title="Solidarity">solidarity</a> network to resist reclamation of their lands and proved willing to defend their homes with vigorous displays of force.<a href="#cite_note-Williamson81-214">[214]</a><a href="#cite_note-215">[215]</a> The Sea Island homesteaders also wrote directly to Howard and Johnson, insisting that the government keep its promise and maintain their homesteads. However, the prevailing political wind continued to favor the Southern landowners. Saxton and Ketchum lost their positions; <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Sickles" title="Daniel Sickles">Daniel Sickles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kingston_Scott" title="Robert Kingston Scott">Robert K. Scott</a> assumed power.<a href="#cite_note-216">[216]</a> In the winter of 1866–1867, Sickles turned the Union Army on the settlers, evicting all those that could not produce the correct deed. Black settlers retained control over 1,565 titles amounting to 63,000 acres.<a href="#cite_note-217">[217]</a> Scott recounted in his report to Congress: "The officers of these detachments in many instances took from the freedmen their certificates, declared them worthless, and destroyed them in their presence. Upon refusing to accept the contracts offered, the people in several instances were thrust out into the highways, where, being without shelter, many perished from small-pox, which prevailed to an alarming extent among them."<a href="#cite_note-218">[218]</a><a href="#cite_note-219">[219]</a> Soldiers continued to evict settlers and enforce work agreements, leading in 1867 to a large-scale armed standoff between the Army and a group of farmers who would not renew their contract with a plantation owner.<a href="#cite_note-220">[220]</a> General Davis Tillson in Georgia ordered a modification to the title of black landowners "as to give a man holding one, not forty acres, but as much land as he could work well, say from ten to fifteen acres—and that the balance of the land should be turned over to Messrs. Scuyler and Winchester, who should be allowed to hire the remaining freed people who wish to work for them [...]".<a href="#cite_note-221">[221]</a> 90% of the land on Skidaway Island was confiscated.<a href="#cite_note-222">[222]</a> The (second) Second Freedmen's Bureau bill, passed in July 1866 over Johnson's veto, stipulated the freedpeople whose lands had been restored to Confederate owners could pay $1.25 (~$26.00 in 2023) per acre for up to 20 acres of land in St. Luke and St. Helena parishes of <a href="/wiki/Beaufort_County,_South_Carolina" title="Beaufort County, South Carolina">Beaufort County, South Carolina</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre67-223">[223]</a><a href="#cite_note-224">[224]</a> This district was overseen by Major <a href="/wiki/Martin_Delany" title="Martin Delany">Martin R. Delaney</a>, an abolitionist and advocate of black land ownership.<a href="#cite_note-Oubre67-223">[223]</a> About 1,900 families with land titles resettled in Beaufort County, buying 19,040 acres of land at relatively low rates.<a href="#cite_note-225">[225]</a> Many people remained on the islands and maintained the Gullah culture of their ancestors. Several hundred thousand Gullah people live on the Sea Islands today. Their claim to the land has been threatened in recent decades by developers seeking to build vacation resorts.<a href="#cite_note-226">[226]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Davis_Bend_2">Davis Bend</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Davis Bend">edit</a>]</div> Thomas denied their request and accused Montgomery of having promoted the petition to further his own profits.<a href="#cite_note-227">[227]</a> Montgomery appealed to Joseph Davis, who had returned to Mississippi in October 1865 and was staying in <a href="/wiki/Vicksburg,_Mississippi" title="Vicksburg, Mississippi">Vicksburg</a>. Samuel Thomas was eventually removed from his post. Joseph Davis regained control of his plantation in 1867 and promptly sold it to Benjamin Montgomery for $300,000 (~$5.38 million in 2023).<a href="#cite_note-228">[228]</a> This price, $75 per acre, was comparatively low.<a href="#cite_note-229">[229]</a> The transaction itself was illegal because the Mississippi Black Codes outlawed sale of property to blacks; Davis and Montgomery therefore conducted the deal in secret.<a href="#cite_note-230">[230]</a> Montgomery invited free blacks to settle the land and work there. In 1887, led by Benjamin's son <a href="/wiki/Isaiah_Montgomery" title="Isaiah Montgomery">Isaiah Montgomery</a>, the group founded a new settlement at <a href="/wiki/Mound_Bayou,_Mississippi" title="Mound Bayou, Mississippi">Mound Bayou, Mississippi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-231">[231]</a> Mound Bayou remains an autonomous and virtually all-Black community.<a href="#cite_note-232">[232]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politics">Politics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Politics">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:15th_Amendment,_or_the_Darkey%27s_millennium_-_40_acres_of_land_and_a_mule,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/15th_Amendment%2C_or_the_Darkey%27s_millennium_-_40_acres_of_land_and_a_mule%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-15th_Amendment%2C_or_the_Darkey%27s_millennium_-_40_acres_of_land_and_a_mule%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/15th_Amendment%2C_or_the_Darkey%27s_millennium_-_40_acres_of_land_and_a_mule%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_%28cropped%29.jpg/450px-15th_Amendment%2C_or_the_Darkey%27s_millennium_-_40_acres_of_land_and_a_mule%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/15th_Amendment%2C_or_the_Darkey%27s_millennium_-_40_acres_of_land_and_a_mule%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_%28cropped%29.jpg/600px-15th_Amendment%2C_or_the_Darkey%27s_millennium_-_40_acres_of_land_and_a_mule%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2558" data-file-height="1447" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">15th Amendment</a>, or the Darkey's millennium - 40 acres of land and a mule, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.</figcaption></figure> Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner continued to support land reform for freedpeople, but were opposed by a large bloc of politicians who did not want to violate property rights or redistribute capital.<a href="#cite_note-233">[233]</a> Many radical Northerners withdrew their support for land reform in the years following the war. One reason for the shift in political opinion was fear by the Republicans that land ownership might lead Blacks to align with Democrats for economic reasons. In general, politicians turned their focus to the legal status of freedpeople.<a href="#cite_note-234">[234]</a> In the analysis of <a href="/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois" title="W. E. B. Du Bois">W. E. B. Du Bois</a>, <a href="/wiki/Black_suffrage" title="Black suffrage">black suffrage</a> became more politically palatable precisely as an inexpensive alternative to well-funded agrarian reform.<a href="#cite_note-WEBDB222-112">[112]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orders">Orders</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Orders">edit</a>]</div> The orders were issued following <a href="/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea" title="Sherman's March to the Sea">Sherman's March to the Sea</a>. They were intended to address the immediate problem of dealing with the tens of thousands of black refugees who had joined Sherman's march in search of protection and sustenance, and "to assure the harmony of action in the area of operations."<a href="#cite_note-235">[235]</a> Critics allege that his intention was for the order to be a temporary measure to address an immediate problem, and not to grant permanent ownership of the land to the freedmen, although most of the recipients assumed otherwise.<a href="#cite_note-236">[236]</a> General Sherman issued his orders four days after <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/savmtg.htm">meeting with twenty local black ministers and lay leaders</a> and with <a href="/wiki/U.S._Secretary_of_War" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Secretary of War">U.S. Secretary of War</a> <a href="/wiki/Edwin_M._Stanton" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin M. Stanton">Edwin M. Stanton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a>. Brig. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Rufus_Saxton" title="Rufus Saxton">Rufus Saxton</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" title="Abolitionism in the United States">abolitionist</a> from <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> who had previously organized the recruitment of black soldiers for the <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union Army</a>, was put in charge of implementing the orders.<a href="#cite_note-237">[237]</a> Freedmen were settled in Georgia, particularly along the <a href="/wiki/Savannah_River" title="Savannah River">Savannah River</a>, in the Ogeechee district of <a href="/wiki/Chatham_County,_Georgia" title="Chatham County, Georgia">Chatham County</a>, and on islands off of the coast of <a href="/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah</a>.<a href="#cite_note-238">[238]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Special Field Orders No. 15. Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, In the Field, Savannah, Ga., January 16, 1865. I. The islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the Saint Johns River, Fla., are reserved and set apart for the settlement of the Negros now made free by the acts of war and the proclamation of the President of the United States. II. At Beaufort, Hilton Head, Savannah, Fernandina, Saint Augustine, and Jacksonville the blacks may remain in their chosen or accustomed vocations; but on the islands, and in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves, subject only to the United States military authority and the acts of Congress. By the laws of war and orders of the President of the United States the negro is free, and must be dealt with as such. He cannot be subjected to conscription or forced military service, save by the written orders of the highest military authority of the Department, under such regulations as the President or Congress may prescribe; domestic servants, blacksmiths, carpenters, and other mechanics will be free to select their own work and residence, but the young and able-bodied negroes must be encouraged to enlist as soldiers in the service of the United States, to contribute their share toward maintaining their own freedom and securing their rights as citizens of the United States. Negroes so enlisted will be organized into companies, battalions, and regiments, under the orders of the United States military authorities, and will be paid, fed, and clothed according to law. The bounties paid on enlistment may, with the consent of the recruit, go to assist his family and settlement in procuring agricultural implements, seed, tools, boats, clothing, and other articles necessary for their livelihood. III. Whenever three respectable negroes, heads of families, shall desire to settle on land, and shall have selected for that purpose an island, or a locality clearly defined within the limits above designated, the inspector of settlements and plantations will himself, or by such sub-ordinate officer as he may appoint, give them a license to settle such island or district, and afford them such assistance as he can to enable them to establish a peaceable agricultural settlement. The three parties named will subdivide the land, under the supervision of the inspector, among themselves and such others as may choose to settle near them, so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground, and when it borders on some water channel with not more than 800 feet water front, in the possession of which land the military authorities will afford them protection until such time as they can protect themselves or until Congress shall regulate their title. The quartermaster may, on the requisition of the inspector of settlements and plantations, place at the disposal of the inspector one or more of the captured steamers to ply between the settlements and one or more of the commercial points, heretofore named in orders, to afford the settlers the opportunity to supply their necessary wants and to sell the products of their land and labor. IV. Whenever a negro has enlisted in the military service of the United States he may locate his family in any one of the settlements at pleasure and acquire a homestead and all other rights and privileges of a settler as though present in person. In like manner negroes may settle their families and engage on board the gunboats, or in fishing, or in the navigation of the inland waters, without losing any claim to land or other advantages derived from this system. But no one, unless an actual settler as above defined, or unless absent on Government service, will be entitled to claim any right to land or property in any settlement by virtue of these orders. V. In order to carry out this system of settlement a general officer will be detailed as inspector of settlements and plantations, whose duty it shall be to visit the settlements, to regulate their police and general management, and who will furnish personally to each head of a family, subject to the approval of the President of the United States, a possessory title in writing, giving as near as possible the description of boundaries, and who shall adjust all claims or conflicts that may arise under the same, subject to the like approval, treating such titles altogether as possessory. The same general officer will also be charged with the enlistment and organization of the negro recruits and protecting their interests while absent from their settlements, and will be governed by the rules and regulations prescribed by the War Department for such purpose. VI. Brig. Gen. R. Saxton is hereby appointed inspector of settlements and plantations and will at once enter on the performance of his duties. No change is intended or desired in the settlement now on Beaufort Island, nor will any rights to property heretofore acquired be affected thereby. By order of Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman: L. N. DAYTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>William T. Sherman, Military Division of the Mississippi; 1865 series - Special Field Order 15, January 16, 1865.<a href="#cite_note-Order-3">[3]</a></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Publication_in_the_Official_Record">Publication in the Official Record</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Publication in the Official Record">edit</a>]</div> This order is part of the <a href="/wiki/Official_Records_of_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Official Records of the American Civil War">Official Records of the American Civil War</a>. It can be found in Series I — Military Operations, Volume XLVII, Part II, Pages 60–62. The volume was published in 1895.<a href="#cite_note-Order-3">[3]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Legacy">edit</a>]</div> According to <a href="/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr." title="Henry Louis Gates Jr.">Henry Louis Gates Jr.</a>:<blockquote> The promise was the first systematic attempt to provide a form of reparations to newly freed slaves, and it was astonishingly radical for its time, proto-socialist in its implications. In fact, such a policy would be radical in any country today: the federal government's massive confiscation of private property – some 400,000 acres – formerly owned by Confederate land owners, and its methodical redistribution to former black slaves.<a href="#cite_note-239">[239]</a></blockquote> According to historian John David Smith:<blockquote> <dl><dd>"What does this history teach us? Yes, the historical record disproves assertions that the federal government reneged on promises to grant the freedpeople "forty acres and a mule." But the fact that the government never made such a promise in the first place tells us something about how black people were treated in 19th-century America. Moreover, it is important to remember that the freedpeople desperately wanted land, believed that they had been deceived, and felt betrayed. The legacy of that sense of betrayal lingers on. After 138 years, the stubborn myth of "forty acres and a mule" remains a political football and a sober reminder of the ex-slaves' broken hopes and shattered dreams.<a href="#cite_note-enduring_myth-240">[240]</a></dd></dl></blockquote> By the 1870s, blacks had abandoned hope of federal land redistribution, but many still saw "forty acres and a mule" as the key to freedom.<a href="#cite_note-241">[241]</a> Black land ownership in the South increased steadily despite the failure of federal Reconstruction.<a href="#cite_note-Mitchell526-242">[242]</a> One quarter of black farmers in the South owned their land by 1900. Near the coast, they owned an average of 27 acres; inland, an average of 48 acres.<a href="#cite_note-243">[243]</a> By comparison, 63% of Southern white farmers owned their land.<a href="#cite_note-244">[244]</a> Most of this land was simply bought through private transactions.<a href="#cite_note-Mitchell526-242">[242]</a> In 1910, black Americans owned 15,000,000 acres of land, most of it in Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. This figure has since declined to 5,500,000 acres in 1980 and to 2,000,000 acres in 1997.<a href="#cite_note-Otabor2-245">[245]</a><a href="#cite_note-McDougall127-246">[246]</a><a href="#cite_note-247">[247]</a> Most of this land is not the area held by black families in 1910; beyond the "<a href="/wiki/Black_Belt_(geological_formation)" title="Black Belt (geological formation)">Black Belt</a>", it is located in Texas, Oklahoma, and California.<a href="#cite_note-Mitchell527-248">[248]</a> The total number of Black farmers has decreased from 925,708 in 1920 to 18,000 in 1997; the number of white farmers has also decreased, but much more slowly.<a href="#cite_note-Mitchell527-248">[248]</a> Black American land ownership has diminished more than that of any other ethnic group, while white land ownership has increased.<a href="#cite_note-Otabor2-245">[245]</a> Black families who inherit land across generations without obtaining an explicit title (often resulting in <a href="/wiki/Concurrent_estate" title="Concurrent estate">tenancy in common</a> by multiple descendants) may have difficulty gaining government benefits and risk losing their land completely.<a href="#cite_note-McDougall127-246">[246]</a><a href="#cite_note-249">[249]</a> Outright fraud and lynchings have also been used to strip black people of their land.<a href="#cite_note-250">[250]</a><a href="#cite_note-251">[251]</a> Black landowners are common targets of <a href="/wiki/Eminent_domain" title="Eminent domain">eminent domain</a> laws invoked to make way for public works projects.<a href="#cite_note-McDougall158-252">[252]</a> At Harris Neck in the Sea Islands, a group of Gullah freedpeople retained 2,681 acres of high-quality land due to the Will of the plantation owner Marg[a]ret Ann Harris. About 100 black farmers continued to live at Harris Neck until 1942, when they were forced off the land because of a plan to build an Air Force base. The land was used freely by local white authorities until 1962, when it was turned over to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service and became <a href="/wiki/Harris_Neck_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge">Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge</a>. Ownership of the land remains contested.<a href="#cite_note-McDougall158-252">[252]</a><a href="#cite_note-253">[253]</a><a href="#cite_note-254">[254]</a> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture" title="United States Department of Agriculture">United States Department of Agriculture</a> (USDA) has long been viewed as a cause for the decline in black agriculture. According to a 1997 report by the USDA's own Civil Rights Action Team:<a href="#cite_note-255">[255]</a> <blockquote>There are some who call the USDA 'the last plantation.' An 'old line' department, USDA was one of the last federal agencies to integrate and perhaps the last to include women and minorities in leadership positions. Considered a stubborn bureaucracy and slow to change, USDA is also perceived as playing a key role in what some see as a conspiracy to force minority and socially disadvantaged farmers off their land through discriminatory loan practices.</blockquote> A class action lawsuit has accused the USDA of systematic discrimination against black farmers from 1981 to 1999. In <a href="/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman" title="Pigford v. Glickman">Pigford v. Glickman</a> (1999), District Court Judge <a href="/wiki/Paul_L._Friedman" title="Paul L. Friedman">Paul L. Friedman</a> ruled in favor of the farmers and ordered the USDA to pay financial damages for loss of land and revenue.<a href="#cite_note-256">[256]</a> However, the status of full compensation for affected farmers remains unresolved.<a href="#cite_note-257">[257]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Symbolism">Symbolism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Symbolism">edit</a>]</div> The phrase "40 acres and a mule" has come to symbolize the broken promise that <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction Era">Reconstruction policies</a> would offer economic justice for African Americans.<a href="#cite_note-258">[258]</a><a href="#cite_note-259">[259]</a> The "40 acres and a mule" promise featured prominently in the class action racial discrimination lawsuit of <a href="/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman" title="Pigford v. Glickman">Pigford v. Glickman</a>. In his opinion, federal judge <a href="/wiki/Paul_L._Friedman" title="Paul L. Friedman">Paul L. Friedman</a> ruled that the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture" title="United States Department of Agriculture">United States Department of Agriculture</a> had discriminated against African American farmers and wrote: "Forty acres and a mule. The government broke that promise to African American farmers. Over one hundred years later, the USDA broke its promise to Mr. James Beverly."<a href="#cite_note-260">[260]</a> In 1989, the U.S. congressional representative for Michigan <a href="/wiki/John_Conyers" title="John Conyers">John Conyers</a> introduced a bill entitled Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. The bill was later numbered <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/40">H.R. 40</a> as an allusion to the promise.<a href="#cite_note-Miller-261">[261]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reparations">Reparations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Reparations">edit</a>]</div> "40 Acres and a Mule" is often discussed in the context of <a href="/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery_debate_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Reparations for slavery debate in the United States">reparations for slavery</a>. However, strictly speaking, the various policies offering 'forty acres' provided land for political and economic reasons—and with a price tag—and not as unconditional compensation for lifetimes of unpaid labor.<a href="#cite_note-262">[262]</a><a href="#cite_note-enduring_myth-240">[240]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Memorials">Memorials</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Memorials">edit</a>]</div> A historical marker commemorating the order was erected by the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Historical_Society" title="Georgia Historical Society">Georgia Historical Society</a> in Savannah, near the corner of <a href="/wiki/Harris_Street_(Savannah,_Georgia)" title="Harris Street (Savannah, Georgia)">Harris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bull_Street" title="Bull Street">Bull</a> streets, in <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_(Savannah,_Georgia)" title="Madison Square (Savannah, Georgia)">Madison Square</a>.<a href="#cite_note-263">[263]</a><a href="#cite_note-264">[264]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forty_Acres_and_a_Mule_Filmworks" class="mw-redirect" title="Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks">Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three_acres_and_a_cow" title="Three acres and a cow">Three acres and a cow</a>, a land reform slogan in Britain.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_land_loss_in_the_United_States" title="Black land loss in the United States">Black land loss in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African-American_history_of_agriculture_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American history of agriculture in the United States">African-American history of agriculture in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow_economy" title="Jim Crow economy">Jim Crow economy</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Forty_acres_and_a_mule&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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href="http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/sfo15.htm">Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gates-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Gates_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gates_2-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gates_2-2">c</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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The Root.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Root&rft.atitle=The+Truth+Behind+%2740+Acres+and+a+Mule%27&rft.date=2013-01-07&rft.aulast=Gates&rft.aufirst=Henry+Louis+Jr.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theroot.com%2Fthe-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule-1790894780&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Order-3">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Order_3-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Order_3-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Order_3-2">c</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar&cc=moawar&idno=waro0099&node=waro0099%3A2&view=image&seq=62&size=100">O.R. Series 1, Volume 47, Part 2, 60-62</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFoner2014" class="citation book cs1">Foner, Eric (2014). Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863–1877. 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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Retrieved 20 October 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+African+Americans%3A+Many+Rivers+to+Cross&rft.atitle=The+Truth+Behind+%2740+Acres+and+a+Mule%27+%7C+African+American+History+Blog&rft.date=2013-01-06&rft.au=fultonk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwnet%2Fafrican-americans-many-rivers-to-cross%2Fhistory%2Fthe-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mitchell523-6">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Mitchell523_6-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Mitchell523_6-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFMitchell2001">Mitchell 2001</a>, pp. 523–524 </li> <li id="cite_note-Foner277-7">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Foner277_7-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Foner277_7-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFFoner1988">Foner 1988</a>, p. 277 "Unlike freedmen in other countries, however, American blacks emerged from slavery convinced both that they had a right to a portion of their former owner's land, and that the national government had committed itself to land distribution." </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWoodson1925">Woodson 1925</a>, p. xv </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWoodson1925">Woodson 1925</a>, pp. xvi–xviii </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWoodson1925">Woodson 1925</a>, pp. xx, xxxviii–xl </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWoodson1925">Woodson 1925</a>, pp. xxiiv–xxiv </li> <li id="cite_note-WoodsonXli-12">^ <a href="#cite_ref-WoodsonXli_12-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-WoodsonXli_12-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFWoodson1925">Woodson 1925</a>, pp. xli–xlii </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWoodson1925">Woodson 1925</a>, pp. xxxvi, xlii–xliii </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDyer1943">Dyer 1943</a>, p. 54 </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLacy_K._Ford2009" class="citation book cs1">Lacy K. Ford (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xEC9K7quBoEC&pg=PA62">Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South</a>. Oxford University Press. p. 62. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-975108-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-975108-2"><bdi>978-0-19-975108-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Deliver+Us+from+Evil%3A+The+Slavery+Question+in+the+Old+South&rft.pages=62&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-19-975108-2&rft.au=Lacy+K.+Ford&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxEC9K7quBoEC%26pg%3DPA62&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWoodson1925">Woodson 1925</a>, pp. xl–xli </li> <li id="cite_note-Dyer55-17">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Dyer55_17-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Dyer55_17-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFDyer1943">Dyer 1943</a>, p. 55 </li> <li id="cite_note-Bonekemper171-18">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper171_18-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper171_18-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper171_18-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, pp. 171–172 </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDyer1943">Dyer 1943</a>, p. 53 </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/jeffcons.asp">"Draft Constitution of Virginia"</a>. 1776.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Draft+Constitution+of+Virginia&rft.date=1776&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Favalon.law.yale.edu%2F18th_century%2Fjeffcons.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, p. 26. "The North, unprepared for war, was even more unprepared for the burden of caring for thousands of fleeing bondsmen. The only organization which could perform this monumental task was the Union army. But to most army men, freedmen were at best a nuisance. At worst, they were representatives of the despised race for whom Northern white men were being asked to kill or be killed." </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, p. 169 </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFJackson1925">Jackson 1925</a>, p. 133. "Nevertheless, shady though some of his tactics may have been in the opinion of some, Butler is to be rated as famous for the stand he took on that morning of the twenty-fourth of May when he declared that the escaped slave who stood before him should not be returned to his master but that he and all others who so came were to be regarded as contraband of war. From this time forward all escaped and abandoned slaves in the South were frequently known as 'contrabands.'" </li> <li id="cite_note-Bonekemper170-24">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper170_24-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper170_24-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, p. 170 </li> <li id="cite_note-Bonekemper171b-25">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper171b_25-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper171b_25-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, p. 171. "Nevertheless, the housing situation was so desperate that complaints emanated from the Reverend Lockwood, the A.M.A. and the just-organized National Freedmen's Relief Association and led to investigation by the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, appointment of Captain C. B. Wilder of Boston to protect the blacks' interests and the construction of large buildings in which the Negroes could live." </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFJackson1925">Jackson 1925</a>, p. 135 </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBoyd1959">Boyd 1959</a>, p. 49 "The distress of the six thousand Negroes at Fort Monroe, Virginia, may have influenced Lincoln to proceed despite the Senator's misgivings. A report by Quakers in December, 1862, described the refugees quartered in small rooms, sometimes containing ten to twelve persons each, with insufficient fuel and clothing to keep warm throughout the winter month." </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFVoegeli2003">Voegeli 2003</a>, p. 767 </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFVoegeli2003">Voegeli 2003</a>, p. 769 </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFVoegeli2003">Voegeli 2003</a>, pp. 776–777 </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, pp. 38–39 </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, pp. 3–4, 25. "During the Civil War, the groups which would shape the post-bellum life of black Hampton came together for the first time. Over that same period, the issues that would inform black and white approaches to freedom, in Hampton and in the South as a whole, crystalized. [...] In these unstable circumstances, Northern whites and Southern blacks had their first large-scale encounter of the war." </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 18–19 </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdam_Gurowski1862" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Adam_Gurowski" title="Adam Gurowski">Adam Gurowski</a> (1862). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7135658M/Diary_...">Diary: from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862</a>. Boston: Lee and Shepard. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/diary01degu#page/120/mode/2up">121</a>. <a href="/wiki/OL_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OL (identifier)">OL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7135658M">7135658M</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Diary%3A+from+March+4%2C+1861%2C+to+November+12%2C+1862&rft.place=Boston&rft.pages=121&rft.pub=Lee+and+Shepard&rft.date=1862&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenlibrary.org%2Fbooks%2FOL7135658M%23id-name%3DOL&rft.au=Adam+Gurowski&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenlibrary.org%2Fbooks%2FOL7135658M%2FDiary_...&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 20. "The rapid change in their status was not working to the advantage of many Sea Island Negroes, and their obvious hardship since the Federal invasion was embarrassing to the government. The army had made free use of plantation food stores, leaving many slave communities with little to eat. [...] Having no place to turn, they flocked to the neighborhood of the army camps. There, they were as often treated badly as offered employment and help. The New York Tribune's correspondent reported that one enterprising and unscrupulous officer was caught in the act of assembling a cargo of Negroes for transportation and sale in Cuba [...]". </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 240. "Violent examples of race hatred could be found wherever Northern troops came into contact with numbers of freedmen. Even at Port Royal, where Saxton's benevolent protectorate should have deterred overt demonstrations, there were appalling clashes. As late as February of 1863 unruly parties from several regiments, including the 9th New Jersey, the 100th New York, known as 'Les Enfants Perdus', and the 24th Massachusetts, went berserk and terrorized St. Helena Island. They killed and stole livestock, took money from the Negroes, and culminated their outrages in burning all the Negro cabins on the Daniel Jenkins plantations. They beat Negro men and attempted to rape the women, and when the superintendents intervened the soldiers threatened to shoot them." </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 19 </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 421 </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 24–25 </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 29 </li> <li id="cite_note-PierceLetter-41">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PierceLetter_41-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PierceLetter_41-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEdward_L._Pierce1862" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Edward_L._Pierce" title="Edward L. Pierce">Edward L. Pierce</a> (1862). The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury. Letter dated 3 February 1862. Boston: R. F. Walcutt. <q>The laborers themselves, no longer slaves of their former masters, or of the Government, but as yet in large numbers unprepared for the full privileges of citizens, are to be treated with sole reference to such preparation.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Negroes+at+Port+Royal%3A+Report+of+E.+L.+Pierce%2C+Government+Agent%2C+to+the+Hon.+Salmon+P.+Chase%2C+Secretary+of+the+Treasury&rft.place=Boston&rft.pub=R.+F.+Walcutt&rft.date=1862&rft.au=Edward+L.+Pierce&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 32. "The government would undoubtedly take steps to put the cotton lands under cultivation, but Pierce was well aware that there was a plan alternative to his own that had very serious backing. While he was asking the government to gamble on the success of a novel agricultural experiment, Colonel Reynolds proposed leasing the plantations and the laborers to a private organization. Reynolds' plan had the merit of simplicity and much better prospects of immediate revenue to the government." </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 32–33 </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 34. "The young lawyer undoubtedly had hoped to hear some reassuring word from Lincoln about the future status of the Negroes at Port Royal. This was a point that had disturbed many prospective supporters of the educational work, for they feared that after being treated as freemen and trained to support themselves the Negroes might become the victims of 'some unhappy compromise.'" </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 37–38 </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 40 </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 43–44 </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 64–66, 159–160 </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 144–146 </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 189 </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 226 </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 226–228. "It is this exclusive preoccupation with cotton that has given most support to the idea that the planter-missionaries were pure economic imperialists [...]. Their vision of the freed people as agricultural peasants devoted to a single-crop economy and educated to a taste for consumer goods supplied by Northern factories fulfils the classic pattern of tributary economics the world over. It is important to remember that at this early time there seemed nothing conspiratorial about this." </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 66–67 </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 141 </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 428 </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 191–194 </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 8 </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 200–204 </li> <li id="cite_note-Williamson56-59">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Williamson56_59-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Williamson56_59-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Williamson56_59-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Williamson56_59-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 56 </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 55 </li> <li id="cite_note-Oubre-p9-61">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre-p9_61-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre-p9_61-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 9 </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 212–213, 298. </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 272 </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 281 </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 274–275 </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 284 </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 57 </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 287 </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 290 </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 294 </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 295 "There were ample signs of impending trouble. A group of superintendents returning to St. Helena from the sale of February 26 were met near Land's End by a crowd of freed people, who surrounded them clamoring for information and 'complaining that their land—that they had pre-empted—had been sold away from them, and declaring that they wouldn't work for the purchaser.'" </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, p. 109 </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDrago1973">Drago 1973</a>, p. 363 </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDrago1973">Drago 1973</a>, pp. 369–371 </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDrago1973">Drago 1973</a>, p. 372; quoting the Augusta Daily Constitutionalist, 29 January 1865. </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, p. 110 </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFJames1954">James 1954</a>, p. 127 </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, pp. 99–102 </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, p. 106 </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 429 </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nps.gov/fopu/forteachers/upload/Resources.pdf#page=16">"Negroes of Savannah"</a> (PDF). New York Daily Tribune. (Copy of the Daily Tribune article held by the US National Archives and transcribed by the National Park Service. According to Adjutant General <a href="/wiki/Edward_D._Townsend" title="Edward D. Townsend">Edward D. Townsend</a>, the formal exchange represents a verbatim account of the meeting.). 13 February 1865. <q>I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and faithful report of the questions and answers made by the colored ministers and church members of Savannah in my presence and hearing, at the chambers of Major-Gen. Sherman, on the evening of Thursday, Jan 12, 1865. The questions of Gen. Sherman and the Secretary of War were reduced to writing and read to the persons present. The answers were made by the Rev. Garrison Frazier, who was selected by the other ministers and church members to answer for them. The answers were written down in his exact words, and read over to the others, who one by one expressed his concurrence or dissent as above set forth.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Daily+Tribune&rft.atitle=Negroes+of+Savannah&rft.date=1865-02-13&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nps.gov%2Ffopu%2Fforteachers%2Fupload%2FResources.pdf%23page%3D16&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><a href="#cite_ref-82">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081220070031/http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/sfo15.htm">"Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/sfo15.htm">the original</a> on 20 December 2008. Retrieved 26 April 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Order+by+the+Commander+of+the+Military+Division+of+the+Mississippi&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.umd.edu%2FFreedmen%2Fsfo15.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/40acres/ps_so15.html">"Reconstruction ... Forty Acres and a Mule"</a>. American Experience.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=American+Experience&rft.atitle=Reconstruction+...+Forty+Acres+and+a+Mule&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Famex%2Freconstruction%2F40acres%2Fps_so15.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBuescher" class="citation web cs1">Buescher, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24170">"Forty Acres and a Mule"</a>. Teachinghistory.org. Retrieved 13 July 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Teachinghistory.org&rft.atitle=Forty+Acres+and+a+Mule&rft.aulast=Buescher&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fteachinghistory.org%2Fhistory-content%2Fask-a-historian%2F24170&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames1954" class="citation book cs1">James (1954). Sherman at Savannah. p. 135.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sherman+at+Savannah&rft.pages=135&rft.date=1954&rft.au=James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-86"><a href="#cite_ref-86">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, pp. 111–112 </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 330 </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, pp. 112–113 </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA252324.pdf">""Harmony of Action" – Sherman as an army group commander"</a> (PDF). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120118190642/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA252324&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf">Archived</a> (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%22Harmony+of+Action%22+%E2%80%93+Sherman+as+an+army+group+commander&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.dtic.mil%2Fsti%2Fpdfs%2FADA252324.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 429. "But the freedmen quite naturally anticipated permanent possession; and Saxton later testified that he had begged not to be charged with carrying out Sherman's order if the freedmen's expectations were once again to be broken, and that he had received assurances from Secretary Stanton that the Negroes would retain possession of the land." </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSaville1994">Saville 1994</a>, pp. 19–20 </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, p. 113 </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, pp. 54–55 <blockquote>'Forty acres and a mule', that delightful bit of myopic mythology so often ascribed to the newly freed in the Reconstruction period, at least in South Carolina during the spring and summer of 1865, represented far more than the chimerical rantings of the ignorant darkies, irresponsible soldiers", and radical politicians. On the contrary, it symbolized precisely the policy which the government had already given and was giving mass application in the Sea Islands. Hardly had the troops landed, in November, 1861, before liberal Northerners arrived to begin a series of ambitious experiment in the reconstruction of Southern society. One of these experiments included the redistribution of large landed estates to the Negroes. By the Spring of 1865, this program was well underway, and after August any well-informed intelligent observer in South Carolina would have concluded, as did the Negroes, that some considerable degree of permanent land division was highly probable.</blockquote> </li> <li id="cite_note-Oubre47-94">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre47_94-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre47_94-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 47–48 "By summer of 1865, word of Sherman's Special Field Order, No. 15 had spread throughout the states covered by the order as well as to neighboring states. So great was the desire for land that blacks poured into the reservation in search of their forty-acre plots." </li> <li id="cite_note-Webster94-95">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Webster94_95-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Webster94_95-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Webster94_95-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFWebster1916">Webster 1916</a>, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/operationfreed01websrich#page/94/mode/2up">94</a>–95 </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 332 </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 331 </li> <li id="cite_note-Belz46-98">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Belz46_98-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Belz46_98-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFBelz2000">Belz 2000</a>, pp. 45–46 </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 425 "Disposition of lands and indirectly of Negro labor through Treasury agents to northern lessees brought forth even greater condemnation than direct military supervision. [...] The investigations of James E. Yeatman for the Western Sanitary Commission late in 1863 revealed shocking exploitation and abuse of freedmen working the leased plantations. Attempts during 1864 to remedy those abuses resulted in confusion and conflict of authority between army officers and Treasury agents." </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, pp. 425–426 "There can be no doubt that these varied wartime experiences, together with the criticism and publicity they evoked, affected the Freedmen's Bureau legislation. They make clear what the framers of its final version were attempting to avoid, namely, government plantation operation, exploitation of Negro labor by northern speculators, abuse and rigorous control of freedmen by southern planters whether in violation of military directives or in collusion with military personnel, even the minute paternalistic regulations drawn to safeguard the freedmen that might lead to a permanent 'pupilage'." </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBelz2000">Belz 2000</a>, p. 47 </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBelz2000">Belz 2000</a>, pp. 52–53 </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHermann1981">Hermann 1981</a>, pp. 3–9 "The reformer was criticized not so much for his practical failures as for his open rejection of orthodox religion and the institution of marriage. Although Davis did not agree with these radical ideas, he continued to admire the Scottish utopian for his innovative theories. However, the new planter proposed to adopt only the elements of Owen's philosophy that would promote his goal of an efficient, prosperous plantation community." </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHermann1981">Hermann 1981</a>, pp. 11–16 </li> <li id="cite_note-105"><a href="#cite_ref-105">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHermann1981">Hermann 1981</a>, pp. 38–47 </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFoner2011" class="citation book cs1">Foner (2011). Reconstruction. p. 59.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Reconstruction&rft.pages=59&rft.date=2011&rft.au=Foner&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Oubre-p17-107">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre-p17_107-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre-p17_107-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 17 </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHermann1981">Hermann 1981</a>, p. 39 </li> <li id="cite_note-Hermann50-109">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hermann50_109-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hermann50_109-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFHermann1981">Hermann 1981</a>, p. 50 </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a> 29 July 1865; quoted in <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 27 </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><a href="#cite_ref-111">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, pp. 336–338 </li> <li id="cite_note-WEBDB222-112">^ <a href="#cite_ref-WEBDB222_112-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-WEBDB222_112-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFDu_Bois1935">Du Bois 1935</a>, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/blackreconstruc00dubo#page/222/mode/2up">222</a>–223 </li> <li id="cite_note-113"><a href="#cite_ref-113">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 413 "Only a few weeks earlier the members of Congress by their approval of the Thirteenth Amendment had agreed that henceforth the Negro was to be a free man, never again a slave; now they took action to put him on the road to economic independence of the type traditional to free men in the 19th-century agrarian Republic, namely, ownership of the land that he tilled." </li> <li id="cite_note-114"><a href="#cite_ref-114">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 339 "With the approval of the Thirteenth Amendment, Congress had put its blessing on the free status of Negro Americans; the land provision of the Bureau Act was the natural response of a nation of small farmers to set the black man on the road to economic freedom. The purpose of the Bureau itself was to assure a reasonable and temporary protection for the Negro as he passed into his new condition." </li> <li id="cite_note-115"><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 417 "The chief spokesmen for the Republican opposition were James W. Grimes of Iowa, Henry S. Lane of Indiana, and John P. Hale of New Hampshire, all antislavery men who feared that the supervision provided for the freedmen might lead to their abuse. As the New York Herald reported with some satisfaction, the Freedmen's Bureau bill 'was killed by its friends,' a display of independence towards Sumner which the paper found 'quite refreshing.'" </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 418 Cox quotes "an entirely new bill" from the <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=069/llcg069.db&recNum=637">Congressional Globe</a>. 3 March 1865. p. 1042.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Congressional+Globe&rft.pages=1042&rft.date=1865-03-03&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmemory.loc.gov%2Fcgi-bin%2Fampage%3FcollId%3Dllcg%26fileName%3D069%2Fllcg069.db%26recNum%3D637&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Oubre21-117">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre21_117-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre21_117-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 20–21 </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCox1958">Cox 1958</a>, p. 413 "Implicit in the decision was the acceptance of the fact that the freedmen would not be colonized abroad, as Lincoln and many others less concerned with the Negro's welfare had wished, nor even colonized in designated areas within the home boundaries, but that he should remain a basic economic and social element in his southern homeland." </li> <li id="cite_note-Oubre31-119">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre31_119-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre31_119-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 31 </li> <li id="cite_note-120"><a href="#cite_ref-120">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcFeely1994">McFeely 1994</a>, p. 99 </li> <li id="cite_note-121"><a href="#cite_ref-121">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAndrew_Johnson1865" class="citation news cs1">Andrew Johnson (29 May 1865). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1865/05/30/news/president-johnson-s-amnesty-proclamation-restoration-rights-property-except.html">"Amnesty Proclamation"</a>. The New York Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Amnesty+Proclamation&rft.date=1865-05-29&rft.au=Andrew+Johnson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1865%2F05%2F30%2Fnews%2Fpresident-johnson-s-amnesty-proclamation-restoration-rights-property-except.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames_Speed1865" class="citation web cs1">James Speed (22 June 1865). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140508224444/http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsonattorneygeneraljamesspeedopinionondutyofcommissionerofthefreedmensbureaujune221865.html">"Opinion on Duty of the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsonattorneygeneraljamesspeedopinionondutyofcommissionerofthefreedmensbureaujune221865.html">the original</a> on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Opinion+on+Duty+of+the+Commissioner+of+the+Freedmen%27s+Bureau&rft.date=1865-06-22&rft.au=James+Speed&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drbronsontours.com%2Fbronsonattorneygeneraljamesspeedopinionondutyofcommissionerofthefreedmensbureaujune221865.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcFeely1994">McFeely 1994</a>, pp. 100–101 </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 32 </li> <li id="cite_note-125"><a href="#cite_ref-125">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDalton_Conley2002" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Dalton_Conley" title="Dalton Conley">Dalton Conley</a> (Fall 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110816220552/https://files.nyu.edu/dc66/public/pdf/contexts_reparations.pdf">"Forty Acres and a Mule: What if America Pays Reparations?"</a> (PDF). Contexts. 1 (3). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://files.nyu.edu/dc66/public/pdf/contexts_reparations.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 16 August 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Contexts&rft.atitle=Forty+Acres+and+a+Mule%3A+What+if+America+Pays+Reparations%3F&rft.ssn=fall&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=3&rft.date=2002&rft.au=Dalton+Conley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.nyu.edu%2Fdc66%2Fpublic%2Fpdf%2Fcontexts_reparations.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><a href="#cite_ref-126">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcFeely1994">McFeely 1994</a>, pp. 104–105 </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO._O._Howard1865" class="citation journal cs1">O. O. Howard (28 July 1865). "Circular no. 13". National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 105, Entry 24, No. 139 Asst Adjutant General Circulars 1865-1869, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Pp. 14-15; Transcribed from Original by John Soos in August, 2003.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=National+Archives+and+Records+Administration%2C+Record+Group+105%2C+Entry+24%2C+No.+139+Asst+Adjutant+General+Circulars+1865-1869%2C+Bureau+of+Refugees%2C+Freedmen%2C+and+Abandoned+Lands%2C+Pp.+14-15%3B+Transcribed+from+Original+by+John+Soos+in+August%2C+2003&rft.atitle=Circular+no.+13&rft.date=1865-07-28&rft.au=O.+O.+Howard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><a href="#cite_ref-128">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcFeely1994">McFeely 1994</a>, p. 105 "From July 28, 1865, until the circular order was rescinded in September, region-wide redistribution of abandoned and confiscated lands in the South was the stated policy of an agency of the United States government. It was so understood (if not put into practice) by army officers in the South. Had it been implemented, every freedman would not have gotten forty acres of land, but 20,000 Negro families in all sections of the South would have gotten a start on their own farms." </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcFeely1994">McFeely 1994</a>, pp. 108–109 "It does not seem altogether improbable that Howard was not fully aware of the implications of his Circular. As happened more than once during Reconstruction, the compelling needs of the Negroes drew more radical moves from conservative hands. That the Commissioner was asking the President of the United States to acquiesce to a revolutionary principle of dividing large holdings." </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><a href="#cite_ref-130">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, p. 401 "Complaints from aggrieved landowners about the refusal of Freedmen's Bureau officials to relinquish abandoned property soon reached President Johnson, who effectively nullified not only Howard's circular but also the intentions of Congress as expressed in the land provisions of the law creating the bureau. On August 16, intervening on behalf of a pardoned Confederate from his home state of Tennessee, Johnson ordered the bureau to restore the man's estate without delay. 'The same action will be had in all similar cases', he added." </li> <li id="cite_note-131"><a href="#cite_ref-131">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, pp. 402–403, document transcribed, pp. 431–432 </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 38 "The new circular made the possession of land so uncertain that many bureau agents discontinued their policy of assigning land to the freedmen." </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 79 </li> <li id="cite_note-134"><a href="#cite_ref-134">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 191–192 </li> <li id="cite_note-135"><a href="#cite_ref-135">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMiller2019" class="citation journal cs1">Miller, Melinda C. (26 June 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1162%2Frest_a_00842">""The Righteous and Reasonable Ambition to Become a Landholder": Land and Racial Inequality in the Postbellum South"</a>. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 102 (2): 381–394. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1162%2Frest_a_00842">10.1162/rest_a_00842</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0034-6535">0034-6535</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Review+of+Economics+and+Statistics&rft.atitle=%22The+Righteous+and+Reasonable+Ambition+to+Become+a+Landholder%22%3A+Land+and+Racial+Inequality+in+the+Postbellum+South&rft.volume=102&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=381-394&rft.date=2019-06-26&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1162%2Frest_a_00842&rft.issn=0034-6535&rft.aulast=Miller&rft.aufirst=Melinda+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1162%252Frest_a_00842&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-136"><a href="#cite_ref-136">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLockett1991">Lockett 1991</a>, p. 430 "Lincoln held the strong belief that colonization would accomplish a twofold objection: rid the nation of racial strife by ridding the nation of its freedmen, which in effect would render America a white man's country (Richardson, 1907, p. 153)." </li> <li id="cite_note-Magness4-137">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Magness4_137-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Magness4_137-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Magness4_137-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFMagnessPage2011">Magness & Page 2011</a>, pp. 3–4 </li> <li id="cite_note-138"><a href="#cite_ref-138">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLockett1991">Lockett 1991</a>, pp. 431–432 "This act made Lincoln the sole authority on all plans involving government-financed colonization, as well as on how the money would be spent. It pushed Lincoln far ahead in the field of those who had dedicated themselves to the colonization of the Negro, reaching back to Thomas Jefferson." </li> <li id="cite_note-139"><a href="#cite_ref-139">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 4 </li> <li id="cite_note-140"><a href="#cite_ref-140">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLockett1991">Lockett 1991</a>, p. 433 </li> <li id="cite_note-141"><a href="#cite_ref-141">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPage2011">Page 2011</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-142"><a href="#cite_ref-142">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLockett1991">Lockett 1991</a>, p. 432 "Because Haiti and Liberia were black independent republics with climatic and topographical features favorable for Black people, Lincoln considered the two countries prime sites for establishing colonies (<a href="/wiki/Nicolay_%26_Hay" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicolay & Hay">Nicolay & Hay</a>, 1890, Vol. 6, p. 168)." </li> <li id="cite_note-143"><a href="#cite_ref-143">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPage2011">Page 2011</a>, p. 314 </li> <li id="cite_note-144"><a href="#cite_ref-144">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPage2011">Page 2011</a>, p. 313 "In fact, the president had those two projects under consideration concurrently during late 1862 and early 1863—and even the 'second wave' of imperial schemes should be understood more in reference to their longer life than to the date of their initiation. Personally, Lincoln was keen to experiment with several options and to see what worked best." </li> <li id="cite_note-145"><a href="#cite_ref-145">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLockett1991">Lockett 1991</a>, p. 436 </li> <li id="cite_note-146"><a href="#cite_ref-146">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBoyd1959">Boyd 1959</a>, p. 51 </li> <li id="cite_note-Lockett439-147">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lockett439_147-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lockett439_147-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFLockett1991">Lockett 1991</a>, pp. 438–439 </li> <li id="cite_note-148"><a href="#cite_ref-148">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDyer1943">Dyer 1943</a>, pp. 60–61 </li> <li id="cite_note-149"><a href="#cite_ref-149">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBoyd1959">Boyd 1959</a>, p. 54 </li> <li id="cite_note-150"><a href="#cite_ref-150">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLockett1991">Lockett 1991</a>, p. 441 </li> <li id="cite_note-151"><a href="#cite_ref-151">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 5 </li> <li id="cite_note-152"><a href="#cite_ref-152">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBoyd1959">Boyd 1959</a>, p. 56 </li> <li id="cite_note-153"><a href="#cite_ref-153">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 6 </li> <li id="cite_note-Oubre73-154">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre73_154-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre73_154-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 73–75 </li> <li id="cite_note-Hahn410-155"><a href="#cite_ref-Hahn410_155-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, pp. 402, document transcribed, pp. 410–411 </li> <li id="cite_note-156"><a href="#cite_ref-156">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 81–83 </li> <li id="cite_note-157"><a href="#cite_ref-157">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, p. 402; document transcribed, p. 410 </li> <li id="cite_note-158"><a href="#cite_ref-158">^</a> "Second Freedmen's Bureau Bill" (introduced December 4, 1865) </li> <li id="cite_note-159"><a href="#cite_ref-159">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 84–85 </li> <li id="cite_note-160"><a href="#cite_ref-160">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 86–87 </li> <li id="cite_note-161"><a href="#cite_ref-161">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 81 </li> <li id="cite_note-162"><a href="#cite_ref-162">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 93 </li> <li id="cite_note-163"><a href="#cite_ref-163">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 149 </li> <li id="cite_note-164"><a href="#cite_ref-164">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 188 </li> <li id="cite_note-165"><a href="#cite_ref-165">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, p. 122 "Throughout the South, freedmen were required to make labor contracts with their former owners, and local Bureau agents were charged to enforce the terms of these agreements. Black refugees from rural counties were returned to their home plantations despite proof that they would be subject to mistreatment. Rather than fostering black independence, the Bureau became an agency to assist Southern whites in perpetuating black subordination. Agents who resisted these perversions of the Bureau's purpose, like Wilder, or Saxton in South Carolina, were dismissed and replaced by officers more amenable to the president and his southern allies." </li> <li id="cite_note-166"><a href="#cite_ref-166">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, p. 397 "However long they had been in residence and whatever the legal status of the property they occupied, freedpeople living on federally controlled land considered themselves entitled to security in its possession and use. Their unrequited toil in slavery and their support of the Union during the war gave them, they believed, a claim superior to that of absent, disloyal owners." </li> <li id="cite_note-Wilson55-167">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Wilson55_167-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wilson55_167-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilson1965">Wilson 1965</a>, p. 55 "Finally, it must be observed that a great deal of the freedmen's idleness stemmed from their almost universal belief that they would receive a gift of land from the federal government at Christmas or New Year's." </li> <li id="cite_note-168"><a href="#cite_ref-168">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, p. 409 </li> <li id="cite_note-WEBDB603-169">^ <a href="#cite_ref-WEBDB603_169-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-WEBDB603_169-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFDu_Bois1935">Du Bois 1935</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/blackreconstruc00dubo#page/603/mode/2up">603</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-170"><a href="#cite_ref-170">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcFeely1994">McFeely 1994</a>, pp. 105 "That Howard and his men, unable to sustain their stated policy, spent the fall trying to make the Negroes believe that forty acres was just 'a la mode Santa Claus' was, in reality, just an admission that a group of white generals had failed their job and not proof that the freedmen were foolish or superstitious." </li> <li id="cite_note-171"><a href="#cite_ref-171">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFleming1906" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Lynwood_Fleming" title="Walter Lynwood Fleming">Fleming, Walter L.</a> (May 1906). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/jstor-25105565">Forty Acres and a Mule</a>. Vol. 182. The North American Review. p. 46. <q>For several years after the close of the Civil War, the Negroes of the South believed that the estates of the whites were to be confiscated by the Washington Government, and that each Negro head of a family would obtain from the property thus confiscated 'forty acres and a mule.' Some old Negroes still believe that the homestead and the mule will be given to them. This belief has often, especially in late years, been ridiculed as the childish dream of an ignorant people; for it is assumed that the negro had no reason for expecting land and stock from the Government. The purpose of this paper is to show that the expectations of the blacks were justified by the policies of the Government and the actions of its agents, and also to show that rascals took advantage of these expectations to swindle the ignorant freedmen.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Forty+Acres+and+a+Mule&rft.pages=46&rft.pub=The+North+American+Review&rft.date=1906-05&rft.aulast=Fleming&rft.aufirst=Walter+L.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fjstor-25105565&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> <code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: <code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>) </li> <li id="cite_note-172"><a href="#cite_ref-172">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSaville1994">Saville 1994</a>, p. 19 "Not only does the 'forty acre' slogan obscure values that are foreign to the idea of land as a commodity, but, by drawing attention to a fixed measure of land, it tends to distort the character of the farming that ex-slaves undertook. Sherman's Field Order 15, issued in January 1865, set forty acres as the maximum amount of land that freed heads of households might claim [...]. Nevertheless, freed families in the low country seldom attempted to cultivate land in lots as large or as regularly defined as forty acres." </li> <li id="cite_note-173"><a href="#cite_ref-173">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilson1965">Wilson 1965</a>, p. 56 "There was one other erroneous rumor—to some extent a consequence of the forty-acres-and-a-mule rumor—which contributed to bad race relations in the South in 1865. It was the more foolish—because totally unfounded—idea that, disappointed at not receiving the expected land, the Negroes would rise in a bloody rebellion at Christmas. Mississippi quickly passed one law providing for the immediate organization of volunteer militia companies and another outlawing possession of weapons by Negroes. The militia proceeded to disarm the Negroes in such a brutal fashion as to cause much criticism. Alabama Negroes were disarmed by similar methods with like results." </li> <li id="cite_note-174"><a href="#cite_ref-174">^</a> Donald R. Shaffer "African Americans" in Richard Zuczek, ed. Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era (Greenwood, 2006) 1:20. </li> <li id="cite_note-175"><a href="#cite_ref-175">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWhitelaw_Reid1866" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Whitelaw_Reid" title="Whitelaw Reid">Whitelaw Reid</a> (1866). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AFJ8942.0001.001/346">After The War: A Southern Tour (May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866.)</a>. London: Samson Low, Son, & Marston. p. 336.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=After+The+War%3A+A+Southern+Tour+%28May+1%2C+1865+to+May+1%2C+1866.%29&rft.place=London&rft.pages=336&rft.pub=Samson+Low%2C+Son%2C+%26+Marston&rft.date=1866&rft.au=Whitelaw+Reid&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fquod.lib.umich.edu%2Fm%2Fmoa%2FAFJ8942.0001.001%2F346&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988">; cited in <a href="#CITEREFFoner1988">Foner 1988</a>, p. 277 </li> <li id="cite_note-176"><a href="#cite_ref-176">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCohen1991">Cohen 1991</a>, p. 15 "The impact of the labor shortage was exacerbated by a black agenda that dovetailed with neither the need of the planters nor the expectations or the Northern occupiers. Seeking independence from white control, they resisted the work forms of slavery, refusing to labor in gangs or to take direction from overseers or even drivers." </li> <li id="cite_note-177"><a href="#cite_ref-177">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 74 </li> <li id="cite_note-178"><a href="#cite_ref-178">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, pp. 74–75 </li> <li id="cite_note-179"><a href="#cite_ref-179">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilson1965">Wilson 1965</a>, p. 57 "In a nutshell, the sum of army and Freedmen's Bureau policies was: protect the Negroes from violence and actual enslavement, but keep as many as possible on the plantations and compel them to work. Both agencies preserved 'white man's rule,' and though both of them did, as George Bently said of the Freedmen's Bureau, 'maintain a fairly strong guard against any form of re-enslavement of the Negroes', their interest in the welfare and happiness of the freedmen did not, as a whole, extend far beyond that safeguard in 1865 and 1866. It is also as true of one as of the other that its policies, in the main, were 'those that planters and other businessmen desired.'" </li> <li id="cite_note-McKenzie69-180">^ <a href="#cite_ref-McKenzie69_180-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-McKenzie69_180-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcKenzie1993">McKenzie 1993</a>, pp. 68–69 "A majority of white landowners, though, dismissed the twin goals of black colonization and white immigration as impractical and unnecessary and believed it possible to rely upon the labor of the ex-slaves. Most Tennesseans believed that in order to use black labor effectively it would be necessary to restrict the mobility of blacks and to fashion land and labor arrangements that resembled slavery as closely as possible." </li> <li id="cite_note-181"><a href="#cite_ref-181">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCohen1991">Cohen 1991</a>, pp. 32–34 </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><a href="#cite_ref-182">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, pp. 90–93 </li> <li id="cite_note-183"><a href="#cite_ref-183">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCohen1991">Cohen 1991</a>, p. 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-184"><a href="#cite_ref-184">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDu_Bois1935">Du Bois 1935</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/blackreconstruc00dubo#page/602/mode/2up">602</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-185"><a href="#cite_ref-185">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 96 "The broad framework of a new economics for the South was prescribed in the North, but the infinite detail evolved in a species of economic warfare between white employers and Negro employees." </li> <li id="cite_note-186"><a href="#cite_ref-186">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcKenzie1993">McKenzie 1993</a>, p. 70 </li> <li id="cite_note-187"><a href="#cite_ref-187">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCohen1991">Cohen 1991</a>, pp. 20–21 "Croppers had to accept employer supervision of virtually every dimension of their farming activity. [...] Still, at its inception, sharecropping was far more popular among blacks than the annual-wage system." </li> <li id="cite_note-188"><a href="#cite_ref-188">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMcKenzie1993">McKenzie 1993</a>, pp. 81–84 "Exploration of this sort has proven that, with regard to Tennessee, the standard scenario for the post-emancipation transformation of southern agriculture is factually incorrect in two fundamental respects. First, the institutional reorganization of agriculture in the state was neither swift nor thorough, and it did not result in the immediate predominance of sharecropping among the former slaves. Between 1860 and 1880 the number and average size of farm units across the state underwent major changes, but these reflected first and foremost a remarkable increase in the number of white owners. Although sharecropping and tenancy did grow in importance, as late as 1880 the typical freedman was more likely to have been a wage laborer than a cropper or tenant. Second, despite the continued concentration of blacks at the lowest rung of the agricultural ladder, in Tennessee there was considerable fluidity between the landholding and landless ranks. Throughout the 1870s a small but significant proportion of former slaves purchased farms of their own; at the same time, however, a substantial fraction of those who began the decade as owners had lost title to their farms by 1880." </li> <li id="cite_note-Bonekemper175-189">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper175_189-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper175_189-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, p. 175 </li> <li id="cite_note-190"><a href="#cite_ref-190">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, pp. 87, 99–102 </li> <li id="cite_note-191"><a href="#cite_ref-191">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, pp. 102–104 "When the freedmen in Wilder's district were informed of the new policy, they were at first unbelieving, and then infuriated. They suspected that local agents like Wilder were lying to them. When Commissioner Howard and Subcommissioner Brown visited Hampton encouraging freedmen to return to their former homes and work for wages, the black began to realize the truth. It was the president and national government that were defaulting on Northern wartime promises. [...] they armed themselves and threatened to respond violently to any effort to evict them. In such instances, white Union troops, many of whom had recently fought in the same army with these black settlers, were ordered to drive the squatters off restored land at gunpoint." </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><a href="#cite_ref-192">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, pp. 113–115 </li> <li id="cite_note-Bonekemper166-193">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper166_193-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper166_193-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, p. 166 "Free Negro ownership of land was not a recent development in Hampton and its environs. As early as 1797, Caesar Tarrant, a black, devised his houses and lots by will to his "loving wife." In addition to his Hampton holdings, he owned almost 2,700 acres of bounty land in Ohio, which had been granted to him for his services as a pilot in the Virginia Navy in the American Revolution. His daughter, Nancy Tarrant, was the only Negro landowner in Hampton in 1830." </li> <li id="cite_note-Bonekemper-p177-194">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper-p177_194-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bonekemper-p177_194-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, p. 177 </li> <li id="cite_note-195"><a href="#cite_ref-195">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMedford1992">Medford 1992</a>, p. 570 </li> <li id="cite_note-196"><a href="#cite_ref-196">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMitchell2001">Mitchell 2001</a>, p. 540 </li> <li id="cite_note-197"><a href="#cite_ref-197">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBonekemper1970">Bonekemper 1970</a>, p. 176 </li> <li id="cite_note-198"><a href="#cite_ref-198">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFJackson1925">Jackson 1925</a>, pp. 145–146 </li> <li id="cite_note-Medford576-199">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Medford576_199-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Medford576_199-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFMedford1992">Medford 1992</a>, pp. 575–576 "With the resources accrued from nonagricultural labor, and the knowledge that they could return to such work at any time, peninsula freedmen and women set out to enter the landed class. In none of the six counties did landholding by blacks becoming commonplace in the years immediately following emancipation. Between 1870 and 1880, however, as conditions stabilized, the quest for land brought better results." </li> <li id="cite_note-200"><a href="#cite_ref-200">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMedford1992">Medford 1992</a>, p. 577 </li> <li id="cite_note-Engs178-201">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Engs178_201-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Engs178_201-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, pp. 177–178 </li> <li id="cite_note-202"><a href="#cite_ref-202">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMedford1992">Medford 1992</a>, pp. 578–579 </li> <li id="cite_note-203"><a href="#cite_ref-203">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMedford1992">Medford 1992</a>, p. 581 </li> <li id="cite_note-204"><a href="#cite_ref-204">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, p. 137 </li> <li id="cite_note-205"><a href="#cite_ref-205">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFEngs1979">Engs 1979</a>, pp. 174–177 </li> <li id="cite_note-206"><a href="#cite_ref-206">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 49 </li> <li id="cite_note-207"><a href="#cite_ref-207">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 80 </li> <li id="cite_note-208"><a href="#cite_ref-208">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, p. 402; document transcribed, p. 430 </li> <li id="cite_note-209"><a href="#cite_ref-209">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 51 </li> <li id="cite_note-210"><a href="#cite_ref-210">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, pp. 80–81 "In October, a highly choleric Johnson personally, orally, and explicitly ordered Howard himself to go to South Carolina to effect a settlement 'mutually satisfactory' to the freedmen and the owners. Doubtless as Johnson intended, Howard interpreted this to mean that complete restoration was mandatory." </li> <li id="cite_note-211"><a href="#cite_ref-211">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 52 "He telegraphed Howard at Charleston that the president's order only called for him to see if the freedmen and the former owners could arrive at a mutually satisfactory agreement. If they could not, Howard should not have disturbed the freedmen in their possession." </li> <li id="cite_note-212"><a href="#cite_ref-212">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, p. 406 </li> <li id="cite_note-213"><a href="#cite_ref-213">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 81 </li> <li id="cite_note-Williamson81-214">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Williamson81_214-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Williamson81_214-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, pp. 81–82 </li> <li id="cite_note-215"><a href="#cite_ref-215">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHahnMillerO'DonovanRodrigue2008">Hahn et al. 2008</a>, p. 408 "Understanding the importance of solidarity in resisting the landowners' demands, freedpeople organized themselves and forged links with their counterparts on other estates. Led by the committee that had framed the petitions to General Howard and President Johnson, residents of Edisto vowed to 'stand by each other, not for any violent action—but simply to refuse to contract for any white owners.'" </li> <li id="cite_note-216"><a href="#cite_ref-216">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, pp. 83–84 </li> <li id="cite_note-217"><a href="#cite_ref-217">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, p. 84 "During the winter of 1866, Sickles simply used his administrative power to do what Johnson and the owners had been unable to do by judicial and legal means. [...] The refusal of the military to recognize any papers which were in any degree erroneous resulted, finally, in only 1,565 titled (representing about 63,000 acres), being valided. By the same order that disallowed the Negro Code, Sickles also directed freedmen everywhere in the state to contract for the coming year or to leave their places. In February, squads of soldiers went through the plantations forcing those settlers without valid claims either to contract with the owners or leave." </li> <li id="cite_note-218"><a href="#cite_ref-218">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWebster1916">Webster 1916</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/operationfreed01websrich#page/100/mode/2up">101</a>; see also <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QjwLAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA114">Congressional Serial Set, Issue 1276</a>. 1867. p. 114.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Congressional+Serial+Set%2C+Issue+1276&rft.pages=114&rft.date=1867&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DQjwLAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DRA1-PA114&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AForty+acres+and+a+mule" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-219"><a href="#cite_ref-219">^</a> According to <a href="#CITEREFRose1964">Rose 1964</a>, p. 296, small pox was already known as "Government lump"; Rose explains in a footnote: "Those who had the 'lump' were 'Union,' and those who didn't were 'Secesh.'!" </li> <li id="cite_note-220"><a href="#cite_ref-220">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWilliamson1965">Williamson 1965</a>, pp. 92–93 </li> <li id="cite_note-221"><a href="#cite_ref-221">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, p. 65 </li> <li id="cite_note-222"><a href="#cite_ref-222">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFByrne1995">Byrne 1995</a>, p. 116 </li> <li id="cite_note-Oubre67-223">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre67_223-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oubre67_223-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 67–69 </li> <li id="cite_note-224"><a href="#cite_ref-224">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWebster1916">Webster 1916</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/operationfreed01websrich#page/102/mode/2up">102</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-225"><a href="#cite_ref-225">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFOubre1978">Oubre 1978</a>, pp. 194–195 </li> <li id="cite_note-226"><a href="#cite_ref-226">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDahleen_Glanton2001" class="citation news cs1">Dahleen Glanton (8 June 2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011113070217/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0607_wiregullah.html">"Gullah Culture in Danger of Fading Away"</a>. 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class="mw-redirect" title="Campaign of the Carolinas">Carolinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobile_campaign_(1865)" title="Mobile campaign (1865)">Mobile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appomattox_campaign" title="Appomattox campaign">Appomattox</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Major <a href="/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles" title="List of American Civil War battles">battles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter" title="Battle of Fort Sumter">Fort Sumter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run" title="First Battle of Bull Run">1st Bull Run</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wilson%27s_Creek" title="Battle of Wilson's Creek">Wilson's Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson" title="Battle of Fort Donelson">Fort Donelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge" title="Battle of Pea Ridge">Pea Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads" title="Battle of Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh" title="Battle of Shiloh">Shiloh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Forts_Jackson_and_St._Philip" title="Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip">New Orleans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Corinth" title="Siege of Corinth">Corinth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Seven_Pines" title="Battle of Seven Pines">Seven Pines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Days_Battles" title="Seven Days Battles">Seven Days</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run" title="Second Battle of Bull Run">2nd Bull Run</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam" title="Battle of Antietam">Antietam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Perryville" title="Battle of Perryville">Perryville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg" title="Battle of Fredericksburg">Fredericksburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stones_River" title="Battle of Stones River">Stones River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville" title="Battle of Chancellorsville">Chancellorsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Gettysburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg" title="Siege of Vicksburg">Vicksburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chickamauga" title="Battle of Chickamauga">Chickamauga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga_campaign" title="Chattanooga campaign">Chattanooga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Wilderness" title="Battle of the Wilderness">Wilderness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Pillow" title="Battle of Fort Pillow">Fort Pillow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Spotsylvania_Court_House" title="Battle of Spotsylvania Court House">Spotsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cold_Harbor" title="Battle of Cold Harbor">Cold Harbor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Atlanta" title="Battle of Atlanta">Atlanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater" title="Battle of the Crater">Crater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mobile_Bay" title="Battle of Mobile Bay">Mobile Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Franklin_(1864)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Franklin (1864)">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nashville" title="Battle of Nashville">Nashville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Forks" title="Battle of Five Forks">Five Forks</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Involvement</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">States and territories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Alabama in the American Civil War">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkansas_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Arkansas in the American Civil War">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_Arizona" title="Confederate Arizona">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="California in the American Civil War">California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_in_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Colorado in the American Civil War">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Connecticut in the American Civil War">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakota_Territory#Dakota_Territory_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Dakota Territory">Dakota Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C.,_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War">District of Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Delaware#Delaware_in_the_Civil_War" title="History of Delaware">Delaware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florida_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Florida in the American Civil War">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Georgia in the American Civil War">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaii_and_the_American_Civil_War" title="Hawaii and the American Civil War">Hawaii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idaho_in_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Idaho in the American Civil War">Idaho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illinois_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Illinois in the American Civil War">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Indian Territory in the American Civil War">Indian Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Indiana in the American Civil War">Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iowa_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Iowa in the American Civil War">Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Kansas in the American Civil War">Kansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Kentucky in the American Civil War">Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisiana_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Louisiana in the American Civil War">Louisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maine_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Maine in the American Civil War">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Maryland in the American Civil War">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Massachusetts in the American Civil War">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Michigan in the American Civil War">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Minnesota#Civil_War_era_and_Dakota_War_of_1862" title="History of Minnesota">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Mississippi in the American Civil War">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Missouri in the American Civil War">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montana_in_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Montana in the American Civil War">Montana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Territory_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Nebraska Territory in the American Civil War">Nebraska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevada_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Nevada in the American Civil War">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_New_Hampshire#Civil_War:_1861–1865" title="History of New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="New Jersey in the American Civil War">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Mexico_Territory_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="New York in the American Civil War">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="North Carolina in the American Civil War">North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Ohio in the American Civil War">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oregon_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Oregon in the American Civil War">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Pennsylvania in the American Civil War">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Rhode Island in the American Civil War">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="South Carolina in the American Civil War">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Tennessee in the American Civil War">Tennessee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Texas in the American Civil War">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utah_in_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Utah in the American Civil War">Utah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermont_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Vermont in the American Civil War">Vermont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Virginia in the American Civil War">Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_in_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington in the American Civil War">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="West Virginia in the American Civil War">West Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Wisconsin in the American Civil War">Wisconsin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">Cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Atlanta in the American Civil War">Atlanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charleston_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Charleston in the American Civil War">Charleston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Chattanooga in the American Civil War">Chattanooga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="New Orleans in the American Civil War">New Orleans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Richmond in the American Civil War">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C.,_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War">Washington, D.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchester,_Virginia_in_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Winchester, Virginia in the American Civil War">Winchester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="Leaders" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Military_leadership_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Military leadership in the American Civil War">Leaders</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Confederate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_H._Anderson_(general)" title="Richard H. Anderson (general)">R. H. Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard" title="P. G. T. Beauregard">Beauregard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Braxton_Bragg" title="Braxton Bragg">Bragg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Buchanan" title="Franklin Buchanan">Buchanan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Cooper_(general)" title="Samuel Cooper (general)">Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jubal_Early" title="Jubal Early">Early</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_S._Ewell" title="Richard S. Ewell">Ewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest" title="Nathan Bedford Forrest">Forrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Gorgas" title="Josiah Gorgas">Gorgas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._Hill" title="A. P. Hill">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bell_Hood" title="John Bell Hood">Hood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson" title="Stonewall Jackson">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Sidney_Johnston" title="Albert Sidney Johnston">A. S. Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_E._Johnston" title="Joseph E. Johnston">J. E. Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" title="Robert E. Lee">Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Longstreet" title="James Longstreet">Longstreet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hunt_Morgan" title="John Hunt Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_S._Mosby" title="John S. Mosby">Mosby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonidas_Polk" title="Leonidas Polk">Polk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sterling_Price" title="Sterling Price">Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raphael_Semmes" title="Raphael Semmes">Semmes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Kirby_Smith" title="Edmund Kirby Smith">E. K. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._E._B._Stuart" title="J. E. B. Stuart">Stuart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Taylor_(Confederate_general)" title="Richard Taylor (Confederate general)">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler" title="Joseph Wheeler">Wheeler</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">Civilian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin" title="Judah P. Benjamin">Benjamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Bocock" title="Thomas S. Bocock">Bocock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge" title="John C. Breckinridge">Breckinridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" title="Jefferson Davis">Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_M._T._Hunter" title="Robert M. T. Hunter">Hunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Mallory" title="Stephen Mallory">Mallory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Memminger" title="Christopher Memminger">Memminger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Seddon" title="James Seddon">Seddon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_H._Stephens" title="Alexander H. Stephens">Stephens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Union</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Anderson_(Civil_War)" title="Robert Anderson (Civil War)">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Carlos_Buell" title="Don Carlos Buell">Buell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Burnside" title="Ambrose Burnside">Burnside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Butler" title="Benjamin Butler">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Francis_Du_Pont" title="Samuel Francis Du Pont">Du Pont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Farragut" title="David Farragut">Farragut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hull_Foote" title="Andrew Hull Foote">Foote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont" title="John C. Frémont">Frémont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Halleck" title="Henry Halleck">Halleck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hooker" title="Joseph Hooker">Hooker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Jackson_Hunt" title="Henry Jackson Hunt">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_B._McClellan" title="George B. McClellan">McClellan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irvin_McDowell" title="Irvin McDowell">McDowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Meade" title="George Meade">Meade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_C._Meigs" title="Montgomery C. Meigs">Meigs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ord" title="Edward Ord">Ord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Pope_(military_officer)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Pope (military officer)">Pope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Dixon_Porter" title="David Dixon Porter">D. D. Porter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Rosecrans" title="William Rosecrans">Rosecrans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winfield_Scott" title="Winfield Scott">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Sheridan" title="Philip Sheridan">Sheridan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman" title="William Tecumseh Sherman">Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Thomas" title="George Henry Thomas">Thomas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">Civilian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Francis_Adams_Sr." title="Charles Francis Adams Sr.">Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase" title="Salmon P. Chase">Chase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ericsson" title="John Ericsson">Ericsson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hannibal_Hamlin" title="Hannibal Hamlin">Hamlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton" title="Allan Pinkerton">Pinkerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Seward" title="William H. Seward">Seward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Stanton" title="Edwin Stanton">Stanton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaddeus_Stevens" title="Thaddeus Stevens">Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Wade" title="Benjamin Wade">Wade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gideon_Welles" title="Gideon Welles">Welles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="Aftermath" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Aftermath</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Amendments" title="Reconstruction Amendments">Reconstruction Amendments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">13th Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">14th Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">15th Amendment</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Claims" title="Alabama Claims">Alabama Claims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%93Baxter_War" title="Brooks–Baxter War">Brooks–Baxter War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpetbagger" title="Carpetbagger">Carpetbaggers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colfax_massacre" title="Colfax massacre">Colfax riot of 1873</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compromise_of_1877" title="Compromise of 1877">Compromise of 1877</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_colonies" title="Confederate colonies">Confederate refugees</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confederados" title="Confederados">Confederados</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Election_riot_of_1874" class="mw-redirect" title="Election riot of 1874">Eufaula riot of 1874</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau" title="Freedmen's Bureau">Freedmen's Bureau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedman%27s_Savings_Bank" title="Freedman's Savings Bank">Freedman's Savings Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homestead_Acts" title="Homestead Acts">Homestead Acts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Homestead_Act_of_1866" title="Southern Homestead Act of 1866">Southern Homestead Act of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timber_Culture_Act" title="Timber Culture Act">Timber Culture Act</a> of 1873</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Impeachment of Andrew Johnson">Impeachment of Andrew Johnson</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_trial_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson">trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Efforts_to_impeach_Andrew_Johnson" title="Efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson">efforts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Timeline of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson">timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_impeachment_inquiry_into_Andrew_Johnson" title="First impeachment inquiry into Andrew Johnson">first inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_impeachment_inquiry_into_Andrew_Johnson" title="Second impeachment inquiry into Andrew Johnson">second inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_impeachment_managers_investigation" title="1868 impeachment managers investigation">impeachment managers investigation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk%E2%80%93Holden_war" title="Kirk–Holden war">Kirk–Holden war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knights_of_the_White_Camelia" title="Knights of the White Camelia">Knights of the White Camelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_violence" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic violence">Ethnic violence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Memphis_riots_of_1866" class="mw-redirect" title="Memphis riots of 1866">Memphis riots of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meridian_race_riot_of_1871" title="Meridian race riot of 1871">Meridian riot of 1871</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_massacre_of_1866" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans massacre of 1866">New Orleans riot of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulaski_riot" title="Pulaski riot">Pulaski (Tennessee) riot of 1867</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_civil_disturbances_of_1876" title="South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876">South Carolina riots of 1876</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Acts" title="Reconstruction Acts">Reconstruction acts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Act_of_1867" title="Habeas Corpus Act of 1867">Habeas Corpus Act of 1867</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enforcement_Act_of_1870" title="Enforcement Act of 1870">Enforcement Act of 1870</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Enforcement_Act" title="Second Enforcement Act">Enforcement Act of February 1871</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Enforcement Act">Enforcement Act of April 1871</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_military_districts" title="Reconstruction military districts">Reconstruction military districts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Treaties" title="Reconstruction Treaties">Reconstruction Treaties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith_Council" title="Fort Smith Council">Indian Council at Fort Smith</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Shirts_(United_States)" title="Red Shirts (United States)">Red Shirts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redeemers" title="Redeemers">Redeemers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scalawag" title="Scalawag">Scalawags</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_civil_disturbances_of_1876" title="South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876">South Carolina riots of 1876</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Claims_Commission" title="Southern Claims Commission">Southern Claims Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_League" title="White League">White League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Post- Reconstruction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Commemoration_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Commemoration of the American Civil War">Commemoration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War_Centennial" title="American Civil War Centennial">Centennial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_Discovery_Trail" title="Civil War Discovery Trail">Civil War Discovery Trail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_Roundtable" title="Civil War Roundtable">Civil War Roundtables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_Trails_Program" title="Civil War Trails Program">Civil War Trails Program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil War Trust">Civil War Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_History_Month" title="Confederate History Month">Confederate History Month</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_Day" title="Confederate Memorial Day">Confederate Memorial Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorial_Day" title="Memorial Day">Decoration Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War_reenactment" title="American Civil War reenactment">Historical reenactment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_Day" title="Robert E. Lee Day">Robert E. Lee Day</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_Hall" title="Confederate Memorial Hall">Confederate Memorial Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disenfranchisement_after_the_Reconstruction_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction era">Disenfranchisement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)" title="Black Codes (United States)">Black Codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws" title="Jim Crow laws">Jim Crow</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiographic_issues_about_the_American_Civil_War" title="Historiographic issues about the American Civil War">Historiographic issues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy" title="Lost Cause of the Confederacy">Lost Cause mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag" title="Modern display of the Confederate battle flag">Modern display of the Confederate flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Shirts_(United_States)" title="Red Shirts (United States)">Red Shirts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Confederate_Veterans" title="Sons of Confederate Veterans">Sons of Confederate Veterans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Union_Veterans_of_the_Civil_War" title="Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War">Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Historical_Society" title="Southern Historical Society">Southern Historical Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Confederate_Veterans" title="United Confederate Veterans">United Confederate Veterans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy" title="United Daughters of the Confederacy">United Daughters of the Confederacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children_of_the_Confederacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Children of the Confederacy">Children of the Confederacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilmington insurrection of 1898">Wilmington insurrection of 1898</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Monuments and memorials</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">Union</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Union_Civil_War_monuments_and_memorials" title="List of Union Civil War monuments and memorials">List</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_the_Grand_Army_of_the_Republic" title="List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic">Grand Army of the Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_Abraham_Lincoln" title="List of memorials to Abraham Lincoln">memorials to Lincoln</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight:normal;">Confederate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Confederate monuments and memorials">List</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_artworks_in_the_United_States_Capitol" title="Confederate artworks in the United States Capitol">artworks in Capitol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_Jefferson_Davis" title="List of memorials to Jefferson Davis">memorials to Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_Robert_E._Lee" title="List of memorials to Robert E. Lee">memorials to Lee</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials" title="Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials">Removal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Cemeteries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ladies%27_Memorial_Association" title="Ladies' Memorial Association">Ladies' Memorial Associations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_Era_National_Cemeteries_MPS" title="Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS">U.S. national cemeteries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Veterans</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1913_Gettysburg_reunion" title="1913 Gettysburg reunion">1913 Gettysburg reunion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_Gettysburg_reunion" title="1938 Gettysburg reunion">1938 Gettysburg reunion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_Hall" title="Confederate Memorial Hall">Confederate Memorial Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_Veteran" title="Confederate Veteran">Confederate Veteran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic" title="Grand Army of the Republic">Grand Army of the Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_the_Loyal_Legion_of_the_United_States" title="Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States">Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_soldiers%27_home" title="Old soldiers' home">Old soldiers' homes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Cross_of_Honor" title="Southern Cross of Honor">Southern Cross of Honor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Confederate_Veterans" title="United Confederate Veterans">United Confederate Veterans</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="Related_topics" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Related topics</li></ul></div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_weapons_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="List of weapons in the American Civil War">Arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_Campaign_Medal" title="Civil War Campaign Medal">Campaign Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavalry_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Cavalry in the American Civil War">Cavalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_Home_Guard" title="Confederate Home Guard">Confederate Home Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_railroads_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Confederate railroads in the American Civil War">Confederate railroads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_revolving_cannon" title="Confederate revolving cannon">Confederate revolving cannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Field_artillery_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Field artillery in the American Civil War">Field artillery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_Medal_of_Honor_recipients" title="List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients">Medal of Honor recipients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medicine_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Medicine in the American Civil War">Medicine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_naval_battles_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="List of naval battles of the American Civil War">Naval battles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Official_Records_of_the_Union_and_Confederate_Armies" title="Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies">Official Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partisan_Ranger_Act" title="Partisan Ranger Act">Partisan rangers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War_prison_camps" title="American Civil War prison camps">POW camps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foods_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Foods of the American Civil War">Rations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signal_Corps_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Signal Corps in the American Civil War">Signal Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turning_point_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Turning point of the American Civil War">Turning point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War_Corps_Badges" title="American Civil War Corps Badges">Union corps badges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Army_Balloon_Corps" title="Union Army Balloon Corps">U.S. Balloon Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Home_Guard_(Union)" title="Home Guard (Union)">U.S. Home Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Railroad" title="United States Military Railroad">U.S. Military Railroad</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Political</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress_Joint_Committee_on_the_Conduct_of_the_War" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War">Committee on the Conduct of the War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederate States presidential election">Confederate States presidential election of 1861</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confiscation_Act_of_1861" title="Confiscation Act of 1861">Confiscation Act of 1861</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confiscation_Act_of_1862" title="Confiscation Act of 1862">Confiscation Act of 1862</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copperhead_(politics)" title="Copperhead (politics)">Copperheads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diplomacy_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Diplomacy of the American Civil War">Diplomacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Suspension_Act_(1863)" title="Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863)">Habeas Corpus Act of 1863</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads_Conference" title="Hampton Roads Conference">Hampton Roads Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Union_Party_(United_States)" title="National Union Party (United States)">National Union Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_politicians_killed_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="List of politicians killed in the American Civil War">Politicians killed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radical_Republicans" title="Radical Republicans">Radical Republicans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trent_Affair" title="Trent Affair">Trent Affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_League" title="Union League">Union Leagues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_United_States_presidential_election" title="1864 United States presidential election">U.S. Presidential Election of 1864</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_Democrat" title="War Democrat">War Democrats</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Music of the American Civil War">Music</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic" title="Battle Hymn of the Republic">Battle Hymn of the Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dixie_(song)" title="Dixie (song)">Dixie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body" title="John Brown's Body">John Brown's Body</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Lincoln_Portrait" class="mw-redirect" title="A Lincoln Portrait">A Lincoln Portrait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marching_Through_Georgia" title="Marching Through Georgia">Marching Through Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland,_My_Maryland" title="Maryland, My Maryland">Maryland, My Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/When_Johnny_Comes_Marching_Home" title="When Johnny Comes Marching Home">When Johnny Comes Marching Home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daar_kom_die_Alibama" title="Daar kom die Alibama">Daar kom die Alibama</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">By ethnicity</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_African_Americans_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War">African Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Americans_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="German Americans in the American Civil War">German Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Americans_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Irish Americans in the American Civil War">Irish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Americans_in_the_Civil_War" title="Italian Americans in the Civil War">Italian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Native Americans in the American Civil War">Native Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catawba_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Catawba in the American Civil War">Catawba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Cherokee in the American Civil War">Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choctaw_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Choctaw in the American Civil War">Choctaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seminole_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Seminole in the American Civil War">Seminole</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Other topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_riot_of_1861" title="Baltimore riot of 1861">Baltimore riot of 1861</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War_battlefield_preservation" title="American Civil War battlefield preservation">Battlefield preservation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Bibliography of the American Civil War">Bibliography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_war_finance" title="Confederate war finance">Confederate war finance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_dollar" title="Confederate States dollar">Confederate States dollar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War_spies" title="American Civil War spies">Espionage</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_Secret_Service" title="Confederate Secret Service">Confederate Secret Service</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Hanging_at_Gainesville" title="Great Hanging at Gainesville">Great Hanging at Gainesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army_revival" title="Confederate States Army revival">Great Revival of 1863</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gender_issues_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Gender issues in the American Civil War">Gender issues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juneteenth" title="Juneteenth">Juneteenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Names of the American Civil War">Naming the war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_gold_hoax" title="Civil War gold hoax">New York City Gold Hoax of 1864</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots" title="New York City draft riots">New York City riots of 1863</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Photographers_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Photographers of the American Civil War">Photographers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_bread_riots" title="Southern bread riots">Richmond riots of 1863</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salt_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Salt in the American Civil War">Salt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_cases_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Supreme Court cases of the American Civil War">Supreme Court cases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_token" title="Civil War token">Tokens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Sanitary_Commission" title="United States Sanitary Commission">U.S. Sanitary Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_American_Civil_War_soldiers" title="List of female American Civil War soldiers">Women soldiers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_films_and_television_shows_about_the_American_Civil_War" title="List of films and television shows about the American Civil War">List of films and television shows about the American Civil War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><img alt="" 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Natural Bridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Third_Military_District" title="Third Military District">Third Military District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compromise_of_1877" title="Compromise of 1877">Compromise of 1877</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Florida_Confederate_Civil_War_units" title="List of Florida Confederate Civil War units">Confederate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Florida_Union_Civil_War_units" title="List of Florida Union Civil War units">Union</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;font-weight: bold;"><div> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /> <a href="/wiki/Category:Florida_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Category:Florida in the American Civil War">Category</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Federal government</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Presidents <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" title="Andrew Johnson">Andrew Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Rutherford B. Hayes">Rutherford B. 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Tilden">Samuel J. Tilden</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="History of the Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stalwarts_(politics)" title="Stalwarts (politics)">Stalwarts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Sumner" title="Charles Sumner">Charles Sumner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaddeus_Stevens" title="Thaddeus Stevens">Thaddeus Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyman_Trumbull" title="Lyman Trumbull">Lyman Trumbull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Wade" title="Benjamin Wade">Benjamin Wade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bingham" title="John Bingham">John Bingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Mitchell_Ashley" title="James Mitchell Ashley">James Mitchell Ashley</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedman%27s_Savings_Bank" title="Freedman's Savings Bank">Freedman's Savings Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_during_the_Reconstruction_era" title="Women during the Reconstruction era">Women 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Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radical_Democracy_Party_(United_States)" title="Radical Democracy Party (United States)">Radical Democracy Party</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1868_United_States_presidential_election" title="1868 United States presidential election">1868</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1868_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1868 Democratic National Convention">DNC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Republican_National_Convention" title="1868 Republican National Convention">RNC</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1872_United_States_presidential_election" title="1872 United States presidential election">1872</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1872_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1872 Democratic National Convention">DNC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Republican_National_Convention" title="1872 Republican National Convention">RNC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Liberal Republican Party (United States)">Liberal Republican Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straight-Out_Democratic_Party" title="Straight-Out Democratic Party">Straight-Out Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull" title="Victoria Woodhull">Victoria Woodhull</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1876_United_States_presidential_election" title="1876 United States presidential election">1876</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1876_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1876 Democratic National Convention">DNC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Republican_National_Convention" title="1876 Republican National Convention">RNC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Greenback_National_Convention" title="1876 Greenback National Convention">Greenback Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Prohibition_National_Convention" title="1876 Prohibition National Convention">Prohibition Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_Commission_(United_States)" title="Electoral Commission (United States)">Electoral Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compromise_of_1877" title="Compromise of 1877">Compromise of 1877</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">U.S. Senate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1864%E2%80%9365_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1864–65 United States Senate elections">1864–65</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866%E2%80%9367_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1866–67 United States Senate elections">1866–67</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868%E2%80%9369_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1868–69 United States Senate elections">1868–69</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870%E2%80%9371_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1870–71 United States Senate elections">1870–71</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872%E2%80%9373_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1872–73 United States Senate elections">1872–73</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874%E2%80%9375_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1874–75 United States Senate elections">1874–75</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876%E2%80%9377_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1876–77 United States Senate elections">1876–77</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">U.S. House</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1864%E2%80%9365_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1864–65 United States House of Representatives elections">1864–65</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866%E2%80%9367_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections">1866–67</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868%E2%80%9369_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1868–69 United States House of Representatives elections">1868–69</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870%E2%80%9371_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1870–71 United States House of Representatives elections">1870–71</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872%E2%80%9373_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1872–73 United States House of Representatives elections">1872–73</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874%E2%80%9375_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1874–75 United States House of Representatives elections">1874–75</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876%E2%80%9377_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1876–77 United States House of Representatives elections">1876–77</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">Gubernatorial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1863 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1863_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Alabama gubernatorial election">AL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 California gubernatorial election">CA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Kentucky_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Kentucky gubernatorial election">KY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Minnesota gubernatorial election">MN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_New_Hampshire_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 New Hampshire gubernatorial election">NH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Ohio gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election">PA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Virginia_gubernatorial_elections" title="1863 Virginia gubernatorial elections">VA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">WI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1863 West Virginia gubernatorial election">WV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1864 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1864_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Illinois_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Illinois gubernatorial election">IL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Indiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Indiana gubernatorial election">IN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Louisiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Louisiana gubernatorial election">LA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Maryland_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Maryland gubernatorial election">MD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Michigan gubernatorial election">MI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Missouri_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Missouri gubernatorial election">MO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_New_Hampshire_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 New Hampshire gubernatorial election">NH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1864 West Virginia gubernatorial election">WV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1865 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1865_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_Florida_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Florida gubernatorial election">FL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_Louisiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Louisiana gubernatorial election">LA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Minnesota gubernatorial election">MN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 New Jersey gubernatorial election">NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Ohio gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_South_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 South Carolina gubernatorial election">SC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="1865 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">WI</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1866 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1866_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Delaware_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Delaware gubernatorial election">DE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Michigan gubernatorial election">MI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_North_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 North Carolina gubernatorial election">NC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Oregon_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Oregon gubernatorial election">OR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election">PA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Texas gubernatorial election">TX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1866 West Virginia gubernatorial election">WV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1867 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1867_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 California gubernatorial election">CA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Maryland_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Maryland gubernatorial election">MD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Minnesota gubernatorial election">MN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Ohio gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="1867 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">WI</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1868 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1868_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Alabama gubernatorial election">AL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Florida_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Florida gubernatorial election">FL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Illinois_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Illinois gubernatorial election">IL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Indiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Indiana gubernatorial election">IN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Louisiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Louisiana gubernatorial election">LA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Michigan gubernatorial election">MI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Missouri_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Missouri gubernatorial election">MO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_North_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 North Carolina gubernatorial election">NC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 New Jersey gubernatorial election">NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_South_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 South Carolina gubernatorial election">SC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1868 West Virginia gubernatorial election">WV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1869 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1869_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Iowa_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Iowa gubernatorial election">IA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Minnesota gubernatorial election">MN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Mississippi_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Mississippi gubernatorial election">MS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Ohio gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election">PA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Rhode_Island_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Rhode Island gubernatorial election">RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Virginia gubernatorial election">VA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="1869 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">WI</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1870 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1870_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Alabama gubernatorial election">AL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Delaware_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Delaware gubernatorial election">DE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Michigan gubernatorial election">MI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Missouri_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Missouri gubernatorial election">MO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Oregon_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Oregon gubernatorial election">OR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Rhode_Island_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Rhode Island gubernatorial election">RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_South_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 South Carolina gubernatorial election">SC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1870 West Virginia gubernatorial election">WV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1871 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1871_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 California gubernatorial election">CA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Iowa_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Iowa gubernatorial election">IA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Kentucky_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Kentucky gubernatorial election">KY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Maryland_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Maryland gubernatorial election">MD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Minnesota gubernatorial election">MN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 New Jersey gubernatorial election">NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Ohio gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Rhode_Island_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Rhode Island gubernatorial election">RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="1871 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">WI</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1872 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1872_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Alabama gubernatorial election">AL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Florida_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Florida gubernatorial election">FL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Illinois_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Illinois gubernatorial election">IL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Indiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Indiana gubernatorial election">IN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Louisiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election">LA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Michigan gubernatorial election">MI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Missouri_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Missouri gubernatorial election">MO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_North_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 North Carolina gubernatorial election">NC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election">PA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Rhode_Island_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Rhode Island gubernatorial election">RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_South_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 South Carolina gubernatorial election">SC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1872 West Virginia gubernatorial election">WV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1873 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1873_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Iowa_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Iowa gubernatorial election">IA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Minnesota gubernatorial election">MN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Mississippi_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Mississippi gubernatorial election">MS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Ohio gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Texas gubernatorial election">TX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Virginia gubernatorial election">VA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="1873 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">WI</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1874 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1874_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Alabama gubernatorial election">AL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Delaware_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Delaware gubernatorial election">DE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Kansas_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Kansas gubernatorial election">KS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Michigan gubernatorial election">MI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Missouri_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Missouri gubernatorial election">MO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 New Jersey gubernatorial election">NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Nevada_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Nevada gubernatorial election">NV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Oregon_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Oregon gubernatorial election">OR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_South_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 South Carolina gubernatorial election">SC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1874 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1875 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1875_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 California gubernatorial election">CA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Iowa_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Iowa gubernatorial election">IA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Kentucky_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Kentucky gubernatorial election">KY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Maryland_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Maryland gubernatorial election">MD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Minnesota gubernatorial election">MN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Ohio gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election">OH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="1875 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">WI</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul><li>1876 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1876_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Alabama gubernatorial election">AL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Colorado_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Colorado gubernatorial election">CO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_1876_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="April 1876 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT Apr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_1876_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="November 1876 Connecticut gubernatorial election">CT Nov.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Florida_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Florida gubernatorial election">FL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Illinois_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Illinois gubernatorial election">IL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Indiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Indiana gubernatorial election">IN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Kansas_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Kansas gubernatorial election">KS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Louisiana_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Louisiana gubernatorial election">LA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Maine gubernatorial election">ME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Michigan gubernatorial election">MI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Missouri_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Missouri gubernatorial election">MO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_North_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 North Carolina gubernatorial election">NC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Rhode_Island_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Rhode Island gubernatorial election">RI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_South_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 South Carolina gubernatorial election">SC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 Vermont gubernatorial election">VT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_West_Virginia_gubernatorial_election" title="1876 West Virginia gubernatorial election">WV</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">U.S. elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1864_United_States_elections" title="1864 United States elections">1864</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1866_United_States_elections" title="1866 United States elections">1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_United_States_elections" title="1868 United States elections">1868</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_elections" title="1870 United States elections">1870</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_United_States_elections" title="1872 United States elections">1872</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_United_States_elections" title="1874 United States elections">1874</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_United_States_elections" title="1876 United States elections">1876</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Key events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">Prelude</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Indian_Wars" title="American Indian Wars">American Indian Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">Slavery in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman" title="A Vindication of the Rights of Woman">A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</a> (1792)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Equality_of_the_Sexes_and_the_Condition_of_Women&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (page does not exist)">The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women</a> (1838)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woman_in_the_Nineteenth_Century" title="Woman in the Nineteenth Century">Woman in the Nineteenth Century</a> (1839)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention" title="Seneca Falls Convention">Seneca Falls Convention</a> (1848)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Women%27s_Rights_Convention" title="National Women's Rights Convention">National Women's Rights Convention</a> (1850)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confiscation_Act_of_1861" title="Confiscation Act of 1861">Confiscation Act of 1861</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confiscation_Act_of_1862" title="Confiscation Act of 1862">Confiscation Act of 1862</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Compensated_Emancipation_Act" title="District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act">District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act</a> (1862)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1862" title="Militia Act of 1862">Militia Act of 1862</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1863</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Order_No._143" title="General Order No. 143">General Order No. 143</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era#Lincoln's_presidential_Reconstruction" title="Reconstruction era">Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ten_percent_plan" title="Ten percent plan">Ten percent plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Bank_Act" title="National Bank Act">National Bank Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Loyal_National_League" title="Women's Loyal National League">Women's Loyal National League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots" title="New York City draft riots">New York City draft riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1863_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1863 State of the Union Address">1863 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1864</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Davis_Bill" title="Wade–Davis Bill">Wade–Davis Bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_United_States_elections" title="1864 United States elections">1864 elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1864 State of the Union Address">1864 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1865</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">13th Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln">Second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_second_inaugural_address" title="Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address">Address</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)" title="Black Codes (United States)">Black Codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Field_Orders_No._15" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Field Orders No. 15">Special Field Orders No. 15 </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau" title="Freedmen's Bureau">Freedmen's Bureau</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau_bills" title="Freedmen's Bureau bills">Freedmen's Bureau bills</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House" title="Battle of Appomattox Court House">Confederates surrender at Appomattox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Assassination of Abraham Lincoln">Assassination of Abraham Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaw_University" title="Shaw University">Shaw University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Departure_(United_States)" title="New Departure (United States)">New Departure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1865 State of the Union Address">1865 State of the Union Address</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Founding of the Ku Klux Klan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1866</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866" title="Civil Rights Act of 1866">Civil Rights Act of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memphis_massacre_of_1866" title="Memphis massacre of 1866">Memphis massacre of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Massacre_of_1866" title="New Orleans Massacre of 1866">New Orleans Massacre of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swing_Around_the_Circle" title="Swing Around the Circle">Swing Around the Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Homestead_Act_of_1866" title="Southern Homestead Act of 1866">Southern Homestead Act of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith_Conference_and_Cherokee_Reconstruction_Treaty_of_1866" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Smith Conference and Cherokee Reconstruction Treaty of 1866">Fort Smith Conference and Cherokee Reconstruction Treaty of 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Organic_Act#Treaty_of_Washington_(1866)" title="Oklahoma Organic Act">Choctaw and Chickasaw Treaty of Washington of 1866</a></li> <li>Tennessee readmitted to Union</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Petition_for_Universal_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Petition for Universal Freedom (page does not exist)">Petition for Universal Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Labor_Union" title="National Labor Union">National Labor Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ex_parte_Garland" title="Ex parte Garland">Ex parte Garland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ex_parte_Milligan" title="Ex parte Milligan">Ex parte Milligan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_Kidnapping_Act_of_1866" title="Slave Kidnapping Act of 1866">Slave Kidnapping Act of 1866</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1866_United_States_elections" title="1866 United States elections">1866 elections</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1867</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenure_of_Office_Act_(1867)" title="Tenure of Office Act (1867)">Tenure of Office Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Command_of_Army_Act" title="Command of Army Act">Command of Army Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medicine_Lodge_Treaty#Indian_Peace_Commission" title="Medicine Lodge Treaty">Indian Peace Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knights_of_the_White_Camelia" title="Knights of the White Camelia">Knights of the White Camelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulaski_riot" title="Pulaski riot">Pulaski riot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Acts" title="Reconstruction Acts">Reconstruction Acts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_military_districts" title="Reconstruction military districts">Reconstruction military districts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Constitutional_conventions_of_1867&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constitutional conventions of 1867 (page does not exist)">Constitutional conventions of 1867</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Act_of_1867" title="Habeas Corpus Act of 1867">Habeas Corpus Act of 1867</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peonage_Act_of_1867" title="Peonage Act of 1867">Peonage Act of 1867</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_impeachment_inquiry_into_Andrew_Johnson" title="First impeachment inquiry into Andrew Johnson">First impeachment inquiry into Andrew Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1867_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1867 State of the Union Address">1867 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1868</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">14th Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_impeachment_inquiry_into_Andrew_Johnson" title="Second impeachment inquiry into Andrew Johnson">Second impeachment inquiry into Andrew Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Impeachment of Andrew Johnson">Impeachment of Andrew Johnson</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Timeline of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_trial_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson">Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_impeachment_managers_investigation" title="1868 impeachment managers investigation">Impeachment managers investigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Articles_of_impeachment_adopted_against_Andrew_Johnson" title="Articles of impeachment adopted against Andrew Johnson">Articles of impeachment</a></li></ul></li> <li>Arkansas readmitted to Union</li> <li>Florida readmitted to Union</li> <li>North Carolina readmitted to Union</li> <li>South Carolina readmitted to Union</li> <li>Louisiana readmitted to Union</li> <li>Alabama readmitted to Union</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opelousas_massacre" title="Opelousas massacre">Opelousas massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Acts" title="Reconstruction Acts">Fourth Reconstruction Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_v._Stanton" title="Georgia v. Stanton">Georgia v. Stanton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_United_States_elections" title="1868 United States elections">1868 elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1868 State of the Union Address">1868 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1869</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Woman_Suffrage_Association" title="National Woman Suffrage Association">National Woman Suffrage Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Woman_Suffrage_Association" title="American Woman Suffrage Association">American Woman Suffrage Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Claims" title="Alabama Claims">Alabama Claims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_annexation_of_Santo_Domingo" title="Proposed annexation of Santo Domingo">Proposed annexation of Santo Domingo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Board_of_Indian_Commissioners" title="Board of Indian Commissioners">Board of Indian Commissioners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_Credit_Act_of_1869" title="Public Credit Act of 1869">Public Credit Act of 1869</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869)" title="Black Friday (1869)">Black Friday (1869)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ex_parte_McCardle" title="Ex parte McCardle">Ex parte McCardle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad" title="First transcontinental railroad">First transcontinental railroad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1869_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1869 State of the Union Address">1869 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1870</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">15th Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enforcement_Act_of_1870" title="Enforcement Act of 1870">Enforcement Act of 1870</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1870" title="Naturalization Act of 1870">Naturalization Act of 1870</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk%E2%80%93Holden_war" title="Kirk–Holden war">Kirk–Holden war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoffner_Act" title="Shoffner Act">Shoffner Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_elections" title="1870 United States elections">1870 elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1870_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1870 State of the Union Address">1870 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1871</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ku_Klux_Klan_hearings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ku Klux Klan hearings (page does not exist)">Ku Klux Klan hearings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Enforcement_Act" title="Second Enforcement Act">Second Enforcement Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_Act" title="Ku Klux Klan Act">Ku Klux Klan Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcorn_State_University" title="Alcorn State University">Alcorn State University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meridian_race_riot_of_1871" title="Meridian race riot of 1871">Meridian race riot of 1871</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Washington_(1871)" title="Treaty of Washington (1871)">Treaty of Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scandals_of_the_Ulysses_S._Grant_administration#New_York_custom_house_ring" title="Scandals of the Ulysses S. Grant administration">New York custom house ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_service_commission" title="Civil service commission">Civil service commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_expedition_to_Korea" title="United States expedition to Korea">United States expedition to Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1871_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1871 State of the Union Address">1871 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1872</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/General_Mining_Act_of_1872" title="General Mining Act of 1872">General Mining Act of 1872</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_scandal" title="Crédit Mobilier scandal">Crédit Mobilier scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modoc_War" title="Modoc War">Modoc War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Star_Route_scandal" title="Star Route scandal">Star Route scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salary_Grab_Act" title="Salary Grab Act">Salary Grab Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amnesty_Act" title="Amnesty Act">Amnesty Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_United_States_elections" title="1872 United States elections">1872 elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1872 State of the Union Address">1872 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1873</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Panic_of_1873" title="Panic of 1873">Panic of 1873</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colfax_massacre" title="Colfax massacre">Colfax massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timber_Culture_Act" title="Timber Culture Act">Timber Culture Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slaughter-House_Cases" title="Slaughter-House Cases">Slaughter-House Cases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginius_Affair" title="Virginius Affair">Virginius Affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1873" title="Coinage Act of 1873">Coinage Act of 1873</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Depression" title="Long Depression">Long Depression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comstock_laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Comstock laws">Comstock laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1873 State of the Union Address">1873 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1874</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%93Baxter_War" title="Brooks–Baxter War">Brooks–Baxter War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Liberty_Place" title="Battle of Liberty Place">Battle of Liberty Place</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coushatta_massacre" title="Coushatta massacre">Coushatta massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_River_War" title="Red River War">Red River War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timber_Culture_Act" title="Timber Culture Act">Timber Culture Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_League" title="White League">White League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Election_Massacre_of_1874" title="Election Massacre of 1874">Election Massacre of 1874</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicksburg_massacre" title="Vicksburg massacre">Vicksburg massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Hills_Gold_Rush" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Hills Gold Rush">Black Hills Gold Rush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanborn_incident" title="Sanborn incident">Sanborn incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Moiety_Acts" title="Anti-Moiety Acts">Anti-Moiety Acts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_United_States_elections" title="1874 United States elections">1874 elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1874 State of the Union Address">1874 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1875</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Cruikshank" title="United States v. Cruikshank">United States v. Cruikshank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875" title="Civil Rights Act of 1875">Civil Rights Act of 1875</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Shirts_(United_States)" title="Red Shirts (United States)">Red Shirts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Plan" title="Mississippi Plan">Mississippi Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clifton_Riot_of_1875&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clifton Riot of 1875 (page does not exist)">Clifton Riot of 1875</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yazoo_City_Riot_of_1875&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yazoo City Riot of 1875 (page does not exist)">Yazoo City Riot of 1875</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Specie_Payment_Resumption_Act" title="Specie Payment Resumption Act">Specie Payment Resumption Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whiskey_Ring" title="Whiskey Ring">Whiskey Ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wheeler_Compromise" title="Wheeler Compromise">Wheeler Compromise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scandals_of_the_Ulysses_S._Grant_administration#Department_of_Interior" title="Scandals of the Ulysses S. Grant administration">Delano affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratt_%26_Boyd" class="mw-redirect" title="Pratt & Boyd">Pratt & Boyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1875_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1875 State of the Union Address">1875 State of the Union Address</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">1876</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hamburg_massacre" title="Hamburg massacre">Hamburg massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_civil_disturbances_of_1876" title="South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876">South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellenton_massacre" title="Ellenton massacre">Ellenton massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Sioux_War_of_1876" title="Great Sioux War of 1876">Great Sioux War of 1876</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn" title="Battle of the Little Bighorn">Battle of the Little Bighorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Reese" title="United States v. Reese">United States v. Reese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trader_post_scandal" title="Trader post scandal">Trader post scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centennial_Exposition" title="Centennial Exposition">Centennial Exposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scandals_of_the_Ulysses_S._Grant_administration#Cattellism" title="Scandals of the Ulysses S. 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Harris</a> (1903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_the_Reconstruction_era" title="Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era">Disenfranchisement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Aspects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em">Historiography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_Reconstruction_era" title="Bibliography of the Reconstruction era">Bibliography of the Reconstruction era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Shepherd_Pike" title="James Shepherd Pike">James Shepherd Pike</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prostrate_State:_South_Carolina_under_Negro_Government&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro Government (page does not exist)">The Prostrate State</a> (1874)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Bryce,_1st_Viscount_Bryce" title="James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce">James Bryce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_American_Commonwealth" class="mw-redirect" title="The American Commonwealth">The American Commonwealth</a> (1888)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_G._Bowers" title="Claude G. 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Du Bois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Reconstruction_in_America" title="Black Reconstruction in America">Black Reconstruction in America</a> (1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Vann_Woodward" title="C. Vann Woodward">C. Vann Woodward</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_Williamson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joel Williamson (page does not exist)">Joel Williamson</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_R._Brock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William R. Brock (page does not exist)">William R. Brock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_American_Crisis" title="The American Crisis">The American Crisis</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hope_Franklin" title="John Hope Franklin">John Hope Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=From_Slavery_to_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="From Slavery to Freedom (page does not exist)">From Slavery to Freedom</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=After_Slavery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="After Slavery (page does not exist)">After Slavery</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Litwack" title="Leon Litwack">Leon Litwack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Been_in_the_Storm_So_Long" title="Been in the Storm So Long">Been in the Storm So Long</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Foner" title="Eric Foner">Eric Foner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:_America%27s_Unfinished_Revolution,_1863%E2%80%931877" title="Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877">Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_M._Stampp" title="Kenneth M. 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