The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865, Vol. 5

Download or read book The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865, Vol. 5 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865, Vol. 5: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry The achievement Of emancipation by the almost universal assent of the coun try; the measures taken by the Federal Government relative to the freedmen; those adopted by the Conventions and Legislatures Of the Southern States to raise them to a position of civil rights; and the successful adaptation of the former master and servant to the new mode of life-forming one of the most interesting chapters of human history - are presented in this volume. Np less interesting was the sudden change in the aspect Of the country on the disappearance of military lines; the unobstructed passage back and forth to the North and South; the reunion of belligerents as one people, one country, destiny. This has not been overlooked in these pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.