The Great Rebellion: Important News from Washington – 2
Affairs in Missouri: Thirty Thousand Men at Jefferson City – 2
Loss of Rebel Officers at Bull Run – 2
Western Indian Troubles – 2
Editorial: Spies in the Armies – 2-3
Editorial: A Carnival for Croakers – 3-4
Mr. T. Butler King Again – 4
Confederate Bonds – 4
Defenses of New Orleans – 4
How the Confederates Get Soldiers – 4
Gen. Beauregard’s Force – 4
Confiscation of Property – 4
The Way to Do It – 4
For those who claim Civil War was not "all about slavery", this article should remind you that slavery was indeed very much on the minds of both Union & Confederate governments.
Long before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, in early 1861, the Union Congress passed laws authorizing confiscation & freedom as "Contraband of War" slave property of Confederates, when those slaves came into Union army hands.
In this article the Confederate congress contemplates what retaliations against the Union are proper & necessary.
We'll see what they report back, but the fact is Confederate seizures of Northern freed-blacks were part of every Confederate invasion of Union states.