in relation to the loyal and rebellious States respectively. Until their appearance at the seat of Government, we had no actual and trustworthy information on the subject. The reports which ...

In September of 1862, after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be ...

But once the South had seceded, the status of slavery in the rebellious states was subject to change. Union policy recognized that emancipation of slaves employed in support of the rebellion was a ...

An area covering most of present-day Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, plus parts of several other states, was handed over to gringolandia. The rebellious state of Tejas ...

to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of ...

Southerners objected to the quick admittance of two probable free states and threatened to secede. Taylor, furious at the idea of disunity, vowed to lead the charge into rebellious states.

The Whiskey Rebellion Festival being held in Washington ... “It stretches to our partners in rural parts of the state and a four-state area in a way that pulls us together at a time when ...