CW slang, nicknames and terms | Soldiers Tales Emancipation – Emancipation was being freed from slavery, the "Peculiar Institution " It meant liberty, manumission, and release, from being enslaved Freed slaves were no longer someone's property Enfilade – To fire straight on upon the length and from end to end of the enemy's facing battle line F
Grant - Grant frees his slave | Famous People of the Late Unpleasantness "We do know that in March 1859 Grant filed the following manumission document “I Ulysses S Grant of the City and County of St Louis in the State of Missouri, for diverse good and valuable considerations me hereunto moving, do hereby emancipate and set free from Slavery my negro man William
Southern Abolitionists (Part 1?) - Charles Osborn In 1815, he co-founded the Tennessee Manumission Society, which included the following charter resolutions: Article I Each member is to have an advertisement in the most conspicious part of his house, in the following words, viz : "Freedom is the natural right of all men, I therefore acknowledge myself a member of the Tennessee Society for
Free Blacks at the Time of the Civil War "The Upper South (think Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and later Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and D C ) had been marked by its earlier history of manumission following the Revolution; it also had a more negative outlook about slavery's future as a result of its increasingly inhospitable soil The Lower South (think Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi
Manumission in Tennessee. . . . how did it work? | Life as a Slave With . . . This may be a silly question, but can anyone tell me how a slaver owner, if he was so inclined, could manumit his slaves in Tennessee? The reason I ask is that I get the sense from popular culture that all it took was a paper from the former master saying that the slave was free However, I
McClellan - Lee - McClellan Letters | Famous People of the Late . . . By suggesting the Federal government work manumission by purchase in the northern states to show the southern states they'll be paid for their lost investment? That's a bit of a leap His letter only called for limited use of compensation
Southern Abolition Societies | Abolitionist Movement Laws in Virginia were created to make manumission harder by the late 1790s Lawsuits by slaves and abolitionists became impossible after that time as abolitionists were barred from sitting on juries that heard such cases
Rebecca Huger | Ladies Tea - War from a Feminine Perspective One of the more heart rending aspects of family history research is county records where white men seek the manumission of their "yellow" children Also, wills often specified manumission for selected slaves or bequests to free mulattos usually suggesting a biological connection with the decedent
Black CS Marines | Naval War - At Sea Along Inland Waterways The population of free blacks could be increased by "manumission," or the master liberating a slave from their involuntary servitude, etc (if the State permitted) Free black men were subject to enrollment for military labor in the Confederacy, especially on fortifications Here's a web article on the free black community in Virginia during
09 12, September 12th In Civil War History | On This Day This date in Civil War history Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag September 12, 1849 - Abraham Lincoln writes a letter to John M Clayton, rejecting President Zachary Taylor's offer for Lincoln to become territorial governor of Oregon September 12, 1861 - September 15, 1861 - Battle