EMANCIPATION DAY: Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, signs the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, reimbursing slave owners for freeing their slaves.

       [restored 3/26/2022]

       Nonpartisan (constitutionalist) President Davis signs the Conscription (slavery) Act, drafting all men, of European descent, between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, for three years service in the Army of the Confederate States.

       [restored 3/26/2022]

Subsequent Events:

4/24/1862                 9/22/1862                6/19/1862                  12/8/1863                 3/13/1865

3/18/1865

Authority:

Article I, Section 8 [Clause 17]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 288.

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 169.

American Civil War, 1862
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar3.htm

[15.0] April 1862 (2) An Infinite Deal Of Mischief
www.vectorsite.net/twcw_15.html

District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Compensated_Emancipation_Act

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,217,480,035,223

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