Reconstruction scrapbook, 1865 Nov. - 1877 Jan.

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Reconstruction scrapbook, 1865 Nov. - 1877 Jan.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings re political news, legal rulings and military orders in S.C. ca. 1865-1877; many clippings from the Charleston Daily News, some of which reprint news from papers elsewhere in South Carolina. Topics indexed include: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; letter from New York, 1865; military orders, 1865-1866; General Sherman's explanation of his "Sea Island order"; Gov. Orr's proclamation, June 1866; Gen. Robert K. Scott's circular to land holders and laborers, Dec. 1866; circulars and clippings re taxation and debt; Judge Aldrich's address to Grand Jury of Newberry, S.C., Apr. 1866, and his subsequent refusal to obey military order, Oct. 1867; Provost Court at Aiken; letter from Isaac Hayne, Aug. 1867; letter from U.D. Porter et al, Aug. 1867; Gov. Orr's letter to the President, Sept. 1867;"interesting statistics"; removal of Gen. Sickles, Sept. 1867; registered voters in convention, 1868; military registration order, 1 Aug. 1867; Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; Judge Carpenter's resignation; southern securities and other economic comments, Dec. 1869; and the contested gubernatorial election of 1876 between Wade Hampton and incumbent governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain.

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Orr, James Lawrence, 1822-1873

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James Lawrence Orr (May 12, 1822 – May 5, 1873) was an American diplomat and politician who served as the 22nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1859. He also served as the 73rd Governor of South Carolina from 1865 to 1868 after a term in the Confederate States Senate. Orr was born at Craytonville, South Carolina located in Anderson County, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1841 and became an attorney. He served as a Democratic Co...

Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914

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In 1819, Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician. (His year of birth is sometimes given as 1825, and Sickles was known to have claimed as such. Historians speculate that Sickles chose to appear younger when he married a woman half his age.) He learned the printer's trade and studied at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). He studied law in the office of Benjamin Butler, was admitted to the ba...

Scott, Robert K. (Robert Kingston), 1826-1900

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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 ...

Hayne, Isaac W. (Isaac William), 1809-1880

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Isaac W. Hayne was the Secretary of the Nullification Convention in 1832-1833. He was an outspoken advocate of secession in his native state of South Carolina. During the Civil War, he was appointed Commandant of Conscriptions at Columbia, S.C. He also served as the South Carolina Attorney General from 1848-1868. From the description of Papers, 1832-1875. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 51588926 American lawyer. From the description of Autograph lett...

Porter, U. D.

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Carpenter, Richard B.

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