Missouri
St Louis: Major General John Charles Fremont writes and then issues an emancipation proclamation and order of confiscation. He does this without authorization from President Lincoln's government.
This proclamation declares martial law throughout Missouri and confiscates all property of "those who shall take up arms against the United States." Slaves held by those individuals were declared free.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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