The Congressional Globe: Containing Debates, Proceedings, and Laws of the Second Session of the Thirty Seventh Congress, Dec 2, 1861 - January 23, 1862. (2nd Session, Parts 1 -3) (Three volumes)

United States Congress

John C. Rives; Congressional Globe Office, Washington [D.C.], 1862

[Emancipation and Civil War Congress] 3 volumes. (Part 1, 2, & 3, 2nd Session, 37th Congress) Quartos. Bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Good bindings. Generally clean.  Discussion of Indian lands in Kansas, Sea coast defenses, Roscoe Conkling, Sherman, Pacific Railroad Act of 1862; Militia Act of 1862; Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act; arming former slaves; Homestead Act of 1862; An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor within the District of Columbia (DC emancipation); defining of borders of the State of West Virginia; Legal Tender Act of 1862; and An Act to secure Freedom to all persons within the Territories of the United States (general emancipation).