"I want you to go up there and destroy this organization--this "Fishing Creek Confederacy" as it is called..."

"The whole thing is a grand farce."

"The story of draft resistance in Columbia County is one of the most complex tales of such activity in Pennsylvania, p…"

"No open resistance, no organization in opposition to the federal authorities, nothing but the act of a few men who fl…"

"Flag-Ship Wabash, Port Royal Harbor, S. C, June 6, 1863.Sir: About ten days ago Major General Hunter applied to me fo…"

"I chose the number of the bill, 40, as a symbol of the forty acres and a mule that the United States initially promis…"

"So far as the Negroes were concerned, their demand for a reasonable part of the land on which they had worked for a q…"

"To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democ…"

"The Sherman order gave rise to all sorts of difficulties. The Negroes were given only possessory titles. Then the own…"

"President Johnson, forgetting his own pre-war declaration that the “great plantations must be seized, and divided int…"