Lincoln issued this proclamation with hopes of expediting Reconstruction. By this time during the war, a vast portion of Confederate states were under Federal control and needed reorganization of their governments. His plan proposed that if ten percent of a state's voter population swore allegiance to the future alliance of the United States as well as approving Emancipation, then Reconstruction...
William T. Stockton was a confederate soldier serving in the Florida Militia during the Civil War, acting as the Major and Lieutenant Colonel for the 1st Florida Calvary Regiment. Before this, he had been elected mayor of Quincy, Florida several times, as well as being married and having 9 children with his wife Julia. He served honorably during the Civil War, even returning from a nasty facial...
It was a chilly California night, the 11th of December in the year 1863, when suddenly, an explosion happened. It occurred in the home of Mrs. C (full name to be kept confidential), 8 miles from San Fransisco. It was a sudden explosion of a keg of blasting powder in which three of her children, two boys and one girl, endured the consequences. One of the boys died hours after the accident. According...