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Library of Congress1886

In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1766.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 1766) granting a pension to William Brentano, have examined the same, and report that the records in this case show that claimant enlisted as a private in Company B, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteers August 19, 1862, and was discharged June 26, 1865

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Library of Congress1886

In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2045.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the Bill (S. 2045) granting a pension to Sarah Hamilton, have examined the same, and report that the records in this case show claimant is the widow of Thomas Hamilton, late a private in Company G, Thirty-seventh Regiment Iowa Volunteers, who enlisted September 2, 1862, and was discharged May 24, 1865

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Library of Congress1876

In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 973.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Carson, praying compensation for subsistence furnished to prisoners confined in the Bourbon County jail, in Kentucky, by order of the military authorities of the United States, from August, 1862, to the latter part of 1865, having considered the same, beg leave to report

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Library of Congress1862

Emancipation Proclamation.

Initially, the Civil War between the North and the South was fought by the North to prevent the secession of the South and preserve the Union. Ending slavery was not a goal. That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. One hundred days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be, free." Lincoln's bold step was a military measure by which he hoped to inspire the slaves in the Confederacy to support the Union cause. Because it was a military measure, the proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, and left slavery untouched in the border states. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war. Henceforth, every advance of Federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and their own freedom.

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Library of Congress1865

Recruits for old regiments. Memorial of the General Assembly of Indiana, asking the discharge of recruits from that state who volunteered into old regiments in 1862, on the understanding and agreement of the mustering officer that they were to be discharged with the regiment when its term of service expired. January 30, 1865. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1879

History of the Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry

Cover title. Published anonymously. "1862." Attributed to Augustus Whittemore Corliss. Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints. "From [Rhode Island] Adjutant-General's report, 1865." "Notes from the diary of First-Sergeant Henry E. Alvord, Company 'B', Seventh Squadron, R.I. Cavalry": p. 8-11. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1865

Map showing the different routes surveyed for the Union Pacific Rail Road between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley,

"President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad. The Union Pacific was to lay track westward from a point near Omaha, Nebraska, toward Ogden, Utah; the Central Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento, California. The Union Pacific began construction on December 2, 1863. This map, submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan on September 18, 1865, by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers, shows the different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska surveyed for the Union Pacific. Based on a map submitted by Silas Seymour, consulting engineer to the Union Pacific, the map shows five alternative routes with probable connections to existing railroads. Also shown are relief by hachures, county boundaries, drainage, vegetation, and roads. Nebraska was at this time a territory; it became the 37th state on March 1, 1867. Under the authorizing legislation, the railroad was not to have grades or curves exceeding the maximums on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the first U.S. railroad to cross the Appalachians. This profile shows the careful attention paid by the engineers to the steepness of the grades on alternative routes considered for the line. The horizontal scale shown is one mile to one inch (1.61 kilometers to 2.54 centimeters), and the vertical scale is 60 feet to one inch (18.28 meters to 2.54 centimeters). The profile accompanied a topographic map showing five different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska, which was part of a report submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers." World Digital Library. Detailed map of Nebraska showing relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, and railroads.

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