A Documentary History of the American Civil War Era: Volume 3, Judicial Decisions, 1857-1866

Chronology

Chronology 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, May 30, 1854 1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party Platform, February 21, 1856 Democratic Party Platform, June 2, 1856 Republican Party Platform, June 18, 1856 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford, 19 Howard (60 U.S.) 393 (1857), March 5, 1857 1858 Lincoln’s House Divided Speech, June 16, 1858 1859 Ableman v. Booth, 21 How. (62 U.S.) 506 (1859), March 2, 1859 Virginia Indictment of John Brown, October 16, 1859 1860 Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Speech, February 27, 1860 Lemmon v. People, 20 NY 562 (1860), March 1860 Frederick Douglass, The American Constitution and the Slave, March 26, 1860 Constitutional Union Party Platform, May 8, 1860 Republican Party Platform, May 17, 1860 Democratic Party Platform (Douglas Faction), June 18, 1860 Democratic Party Platform (Breckinridge Faction), June 18, 1860 Attorney General Jeremiah Black on Secession, November 20, 1860 Crittenden Compromise, December 18, 1860 South Carolina Ordinance of Secession, December 20, 1860 Documentary History of the American Civil War Era 534 1861 Alabama Ordinance of Secession, January 11, 1861 Georgia Ordinance of Secession, January 19, 1861 President James Buchanan, State of the Union, January 29, 1861 Inauguration Speech of Jefferson Davis, February 22, 1861 Proposed 13th Amendment of 1860, March 2, 1861 First Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861 Lincoln’s Presidential Order of April 15, 1861 Lincoln’s Proclamation of Blockade, April 19, 1861 Robert E. Lee Letter of Resignation, April 20, 1861 Jefferson Davis, Message to Congress: “Our Cause is Just and Holy,” April 29, 1861 Ex parte Merryman, 17 Fed. Cas. 144, Case # 9,487 (1861), April 1861 Kentucky Resolution of Neutrality and Governor’s Statement, May 16, 1861. Lincoln’s Special Message to Congress, “A People’s Contest,” July 4, 1861 Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions, July 22/23, 1861 General Benjamin Butler on “Contraband,” July 30, 1861 Seditious Conspiracy Act, July 31, 1861 First Confiscation Act, August 6, 1861 General John C. Fremont’s martial law/emancipation policy, August 30, 1861 Karl Marx on the Civil War, October 11, 1861 1862 Thaddeus Stevens’s Speech on Emancipation, January 22, 1862 Abolishment of Slavery in the District of Columbia Act, April 16, 1862 Confederate Conscription Act, April 17, 1862 Homestead Act, May 20, 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, July 1, 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act, July 2, 1862 Non-Issued Lincoln Veto to Second Confiscation Act, July 12, 1862 Supplement, Abolishment of Slavery in the District of Columbia Act, July 12, 1862 Judiciary Act, July 15, 1862 Militia Act, July 17, 1862 Second Confiscation Act, July 17, 1862 Supplement to Second Confiscation Act, July 17, 1862 Lincoln to Greeley, “I would save the Union,” August 22, 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 Confederate Conscription Act, “Twenty Slave” Amendment, October 11, 1862 President Lincoln’s Message to Congress, December 1, 1862 West Virginia Act, December 31, 1862 Chronology 535 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 National Banking Act, February 25, 1863 Federal Conscription Act of March 3, 1863 Habeas Corpus Act, March 3, 1863 Prize Cases, 2 Black (67 U.S.) 635 (1863), March 10, 1863 General Order 100, Lieber Code, April 23, 1863 Grant to Lincoln on use of African-American troops, August 23, 1863 Lincoln’s 10% Plan, December 8, 1863 1864 Gelpke v. City of Dubuque, 1 Wallace (68 U.S.) 175 (1864), January 11, 1864 Ex parte Vallandigham, 1 Wallace (68 U.S.) 243 (1864), February 15, 1864 Republican (National Union) Party Platform, June 8, 1864 Wade/Davis Plan of July 2, 1864 Pocket Veto and Wade/Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864 Grant on Reconstruction, August 16, 1864 Democratic Party Platform, August 29, 1864 Lincoln to Sherman, ‘Needs Soldier Vote,’ September 19, 1864 1865 Freedman’s Bureau Act, March 3, 1865 Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865 Attorney General James Speed, Opinion on Lincoln Murder Trial, April 28, 1865 President Johnson’s Proclamation of Amnesty, May 29, 1865 President Johnson’s Proclamation of Concerning the Government of North Carolina, May 29, 1865 Attorney General James Speed, Extended Opinion on Lincoln Murder Trial, July—, 1865 Thaddeus Stevens, September 9, 1865, Lancaster Speech Thirteenth Amendment, December 6, 1865 Thaddeus Stevens, Reconstruction, December 18, 1865 Grant Southern Tour Report, December 18, 1865 1866 U.S. v. Rhodes, 27 Fed. Cas. 785, Case # 16,151 (1866), 1866 President Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, February 19, 1866 President Johnson’s Veto of Civil...