A no-frills day-by-day account of what was happening 150 years ago, this blog is intended to be a way that we can experience or remember the Civil War with more immediacy, in addition to understanding the flow of time as we live in it.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Sept. 11, 1861
Sept. 11, 1861: Pres. Lincoln writes a letter to Gen. Fremont instructing him by order to withdraw his proclamations that freed all slaves in Missouri and Arkansas and which also confiscated property belonging to any Rebel. He tells Fremont that his edicts must be revised at least to conform to Acts of Congress.
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