Correspondence, 1842-1867.

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Correspondence, 1842-1867.

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Personal correspondence of members of the Gault family containing comments on cotton planting, emigration to Texas, abolition, secession, the policies of Lincoln toward the South, the government of the Confederate States of America, Army life during the Civil War, freedmen and the Freedmen's Bureau, the scarcity of labor, the Radical Republicans, politics in Texas, and President Andrew Johnson's Peace Proclamation.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Gault, M. H. (Matthew Hamilton), 1822-1887

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Resident of Hookset (Merrimack Co.), N.H. From the description of Correspondence, 1842-1867. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20769716 ...

United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...