Lincoln's declaration was a watershed moment in the war, which up until then had been formally fought with the central goal of keeping the Confederacy from seceding from the Union. The Emancipation ...
ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...
On the evening of January 2, 1863, a gathering of “the friends of emancipation,” according to the Syracuse Daily Journal, gathered in Clinton Square to celebrate the final enactment of President ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results