October 1, 1867-June 30, 1868
Author: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780809316939
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Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780809316939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ulysses Simpson Grant
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 690
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In spite of his public silence, Grant was caught in the dispute between Congress and President Andrew Johnson. His position became intolerable after Johnson publicly accused Grant of dishonesty. The same sense of duty that sent Grant to war in 1861 gave him no alternative to accepting the Republican nomination. "I could back down without, as it seems to me, leaving the contest for power for the next four years between mere trading politicians, the elevation of whom, no matter which party won, would lose to us, largely, the results of the costly war which we have gone through." From Washington, Grant monitored events in both the South and the West. He felt that military government could protect the citizenry when civil government faltered and endorsed the efforts of the congressional Indian Peace Commission.
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
Published: 1872
Total Pages: 492
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 556
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Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780809322770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kentucky. General Assembly
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 888
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dale Kretz
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2022-09-07
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1469671034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens. As claimants, Black southerners engaged an array of federal agencies. Their encounters with the more familiar Freedmen's Bureau and Pension Bureau are presented here in a striking new light, while their struggles with the long-forgotten Freedmen's Branch appear in this study for the very first time. Based on extensive archival research in rarely used collections, Dale Kretz uncovers surprising stories of political mobilization among tens of thousands of Black claimants for military bounties, back payments, and pensions, finding victories in an unlikely place: the federal bureaucracy. As newly freed, rights-bearing citizens, they negotiated issues of slavery, identity, family, loyalty, dependency, and disability, all within an increasingly complex and rapidly expanding federal administrative state—at once a lifeline to countless Black families and a mainline to a new liberal order.