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Milestone Documents
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Milestone Documents homepage. for the purchase of Alaska, the Earlier this year, the National Fort Laramie Treaty, the 14th Archives assembled a collection and 15th Amendments, and an of their most requested items into Act Establishing Yellowstone a gathering entitled Milestone National Park. Selecting any of these original Documents. Civil War researchers Surrender document. will want to begin their quest documents will present a new at https://www.archives.gov/ window containing a synopsis of milestone-documents/list#civil- the event, a copy of the original war-and-reconstruction. On the document, and a transcription. ‘Civil War and Reconstruction’ For this exercise, a review of the page, users can view the following ‘Articles of Agreement Relating original papers: Compromise to the Surrender of the Army of of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Northern Virginia (1865)’ will Dred Scott v. Sanford, Telegram serve as a demonstration. The Announcing the Surrender of following image depicts the Fort Sumter, Homestead Act, synopsis and a small view of the the Pacific Railway Act, Morrill original document. Clicking on Act, Emancipation Proclamation, the image of the document will War Department General Order allow one to download it for 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored closer examination. A transcription, offering quick Troops, the Wade-Davis Bill, Articles of Agreement Relating perusal of the contents, appears at to the Surrender of the Army the bottom of the document page. Spend some time exploring of Northern Virginia, and the 13th Amendment to the U.S. the entire Milestone Documents Constitution: Abolition of Slavery. collection, and continued good In addition, other documents luck in researching the American Synopsis of surrender terms. from the period include the check Civil War!
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Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, instructor, lecturer, newspaper columnist, and author. He is a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians. Contact the author: mkscdr11@gmail.com
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Transcription of surrender terms.
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