The Confiscation Act of 1861 was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting military confiscation and subsequent court...

held by the Confederate forces in the South. The Confiscation Act of 1861 authorized the confiscation of any Confederate property by Union forces ("property"...

The Confiscation Act of 1862, or Second Confiscation Act, was a law passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War. Section 9 of the...

Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other...

people in places under their control. In August 1861, the U.S. Congress enacted the Confiscation Act of 1861, which barred enslavers from re-enslaving captured...

Treaty of 1842 Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Act in Relation to Service (1851) Confiscation Act of 1861 Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves...

army in 1854 and returned to civilian life impoverished. In 1861, shortly after the onset of the Civil War, Grant joined the Union Army and rose to prominence...

Brooks D. Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868 (1991) Skelton, William B. "Stanton, Edwin McMasters";...

abolishing slavery. On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act, which authorized judicial proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used...

suppressing said rebellion". Lincoln also cited the Confiscation Act of 1861 and Confiscation Act of 1862, passed by Congress, as sources for his authority...