Robert E. Lee was the executor - American Civil War Forums
Apr 1, 2016 · Robert E. Lee was the executor of his father in law George Washington Parke Custis’ estate in 1857. One of the stipulations of the will was the manumission of the enslaved …
Grant - Grant frees his slave | Famous People of the Late …
Jan 24, 2017 · "We do know that in March 1859 Grant filed the following manumission document. “I Ulysses S Grant of the City and County of St. Louis in the State of Missouri, for diverse good …
Manumission in Tennessee....how did it work? | Life as a Slave
Feb 9, 2012 · This may be a silly question, but can anyone tell me how a slaver owner, if he was so inclined, could manumit his slaves in Tennessee? The reason I ask is that I get the sense …
McClellan - Lee - "McClellan Letters" | Famous People of the Late ...
Nov 25, 2021 · Emancipation does not equal compensated manumission. More importantly, the cautious, conservative approach raised by Little Mac as a possible strategy (note he doesn't …
CW slang, nicknames and terms - American Civil War Forums
Jun 21, 2008 · Emancipation – Emancipation was being freed from slavery, the "Peculiar Institution." It meant liberty, manumission, and release, from being enslaved. Freed slaves …
Was it worth it? | The Surrender at Appomattox | Page 6
Apr 4, 2017 · They didn't want just manumission but instant abolition and that threatened the very lives of the Southerners. Slave uprisings were very bloody before they were suppressed. John …
09/12, September 12th In Civil War History | On This Day
Mar 3, 2017 · September 12, 1861 - Maj. Gen. John Charles Fremont, USA, issues the deeds of manumission to two slaves of a disloyal owner in Missouri. September 12, 1861 - Skirmish at …
Black CS Marines | Naval War - At Sea & Along Inland Waterways
Dec 30, 2023 · The population of free blacks could be increased by "manumission," or the master liberating a slave from their involuntary servitude, etc. (if the State permitted). Free black men …
Free Blacks at the Time of the Civil War
Nov 9, 2010 · "The Upper South (think Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and later Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and D.C.) had been marked by its earlier history of …
Robert E. Lee and Nancy Ruffin - American Civil War Forums
Mar 25, 2024 · I would really like to know more about Nancy. She appears in Lee's will in 1846, and then in manumission papers in January 1863.