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The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.
The Southern Homestead Act opened up 46,398,544.87 acres (about 46 million acres or 190,000 km 2) of public land for sale in the Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Metcalf, Frank. "The Illinois Confederate Company," Confederate Veteran, vol. 16, pp.224-5. S.A. Cunningham, 1908. Miller Jr, Edward A. The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth US Colored Infantry (Univ of South Carolina Press, 2021). Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago: Volume II: From Town to City 1848 ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th ...
After he died in 1789, responsibility for surveying was transferred to the Surveyor General. Land was to be systematically surveyed into square townships, 6 mi (9.7 km) on a side, each divided into thirty-six sections of 1 sq mi (2.6 km 2) or 640 acres (260 ha). These sections could then be subdivided for re-sale by settlers and land speculators.
General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...
With this in mind, Murray and his Philadelphia employers organized the Illinois Company and, on 5 July 1773, purchased two tracts of land from the Kaskaskia, Peoria, and Cahokia tribes. British officials refused to recognize the legality of the Illinois Company's purchase–the interpretation of Camden-Yorke circulating in America had been ...
Unlike the gold coins, this issue was produced in significant numbers (over 2.5 million) and is inexpensive in lower grades, although fakes have been made for sale to the public. [236] However, before the New Orleans Mint ceased operation in May 1861, the Confederate government used its own reverse design to strike four half dollars.