#edwin m. stanton

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face study finally

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Storyboard on paper practice (sorry if it looks bad im very tired)

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"Victors don't need to kick three-legged dogs. We don't need to flaunt power. We're in power." "Until we're not."

Manhunt (2024)

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Sorry I’m the Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln who organized the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.

WAIT PEOPLE ON TUMBLR ARE REAL FUCKING PEOPLE

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So as several people have noticed, ethos chair doesn't fit under his desk (maybe it squeezes but where are the scuff marks then?) @edwin-m-stanton and I ended up having a 2 am discussion about this (like normal people) and this is what we came up with

Without color for more "details" lmao

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Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865) were military orders issued during the American Civil War, on January 16, 1865, by General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi of the United States Army. They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) of land along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres (16 ha), on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 formerly enslaved families and other black people then living in the area.

The orders were issued following Sherman's March to the Sea. They were intended to address the immediate problem of dealing with the tens of thousands of black refugees who had joined Sherman's march in search of protection and sustenance, and “to assure the harmony of action in the area of operations.” Critics allege that his intention was for the order to be a temporary measure to address an immediate problem, and not to grant permanent ownership of the land to the freedmen, although most of the recipients assumed otherwise. General Sherman issued his orders four days after meeting with twenty local black ministers and lay leaders and with U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Savannah, Georgia. Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, an abolitionist from Massachusetts who had previously organized the recruitment of black soldiers for the Union Army, was put in charge of implementing the orders. Freedmen were settled in Georgia, particularly along the Savannah River, in the Ogeechee district of Chatham County, and on islands off of the coast of Savannah.

In the end, the orders had little concrete effect because President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation that returned the lands to southern owners who took a loyalty oath. Johnson granted amnesty to most former Confederates and allowed the rebel states to elect new governments. These governments, which often included ex-Confederate officials, soon enacted black codes, measures designed to control and repress the recently freed slave population. General Saxton and his staff at the Charleston SC Freedmen Bureau's office refused to carry out President Johnson's wishes and denied all applications to have lands returned. In the end, Johnson and his allies removed General Saxton and his staff, but not before Congress was able to provide legislation to assist some families in keeping their lands.

Although mules are not mentioned in the orders, they were a main source for the expression “forty acres and a mule.” A historical marker commemorating the order was erected by the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, near the corner of Harris and Bull streets, in Madison Square. (source)

👉🏿 40 Acres & A Lie (podcast)

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The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule'

BY: HENRY LOUIS GATES JR

We've all heard the story of the "40 acres and a mule" promise to former slaves. It's a staple of black history lessons, and it's the name of Spike Lee's film company. The promise was the first systematic attempt to provide a form of reparations to newly freed slaves, and it was astonishingly radical for its time, proto-socialist in its implications. In fact, such a policy would be radical in any country today: the federal government's massive confiscation of private property -- some 400,000 acres -- formerly owned by Confederate land owners, and its methodical redistribution to former black slaves. What most of us haven't heard is that the idea really was generated by black leaders themselves.

It is difficult to stress adequately howrevolutionary this idea was: As the historian Eric Foner puts it in his book, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, "Here in coastal South Carolina and Georgia, the prospect beckoned of a transformation of Southern society more radical even than the end of slavery." Try to imagine how profoundly different the history of race relations in the United States would have been had this policy been implemented and enforced; had the former slaves actually had access to the ownership of land, of property; if they had had a chance to be self-sufficient economically, to build, accrue and pass on wealth. After all, one of the principal promises of America was the possibility of average people being able to ownland, and all that such ownership entailed. As we know all too well, this promise was not to be realized for the overwhelming majority of the nation's former slaves, who numbered about 3.9 million.

What Exactly Was Promised?

We have been taught in school that the source of the policy of "40 acres and a mule" was Union General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15, issued on Jan. 16, 1865. (That account is half-right: Sherman prescribed the 40 acres in that Order, but not the mule. The mule would come later.) But what many accounts leave out is that this idea for massive land redistribution actually was the result of a discussion that Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton held four days beforeSherman issued the Order, with 20 leaders of the black community in Savannah, Ga., where Sherman was headquartered following his famous March to the Sea. The meeting was unprecedented in American history.

Today, we commonly use the phrase "40 acres and a mule," but few of us have read the Order itself. Three of its parts are relevant here. Section one bears repeating in full: "The islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. Johns river, Florida, are reserved and set apart for the settlement of the negroes [sic] now made free by the acts of war and the proclamation of the President of the United States."

Section two specifies that these new communities, moreover, would be governed entirely by black people themselves: " … on the islands, and in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves … By the laws of war, and orders of the President of the United States, the negro [sic] is free and must be dealt with as such."

Finally, section three specifies the allocation of land: " … each family shall have a plot of not more than (40) acres of tillable ground, and when it borders on some water channel, with not more than 800 feet water front, in the possession of which land the military authorities will afford them protection, until such time as they can protect themselves, or until Congress shall regulate their title."

With this Order, 400,000 acres of land -- "a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John's River in Florida, including Georgia's Sea Islands and the mainland thirty miles in from the coast," asBarton Myers reports -- would be redistributed to the newly freed slaves. The extent of this Order and its larger implications are mind-boggling, actually.

Who Came Up With the Idea?

Here's how this radical proposal -- which must have completely blown the minds of the rebel Confederates -- actually came about. The abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens and other Radical Republicans had been actively advocating land redistribution "to break the back of Southern slaveholders' power," as Myers observed. But Sherman's plan only took shape after the meeting that he and Stanton held with those black ministers, at 8:00 p.m., Jan. 12, on the second floor of Charles Green's mansion on Savannah's Macon Street. In its broadest strokes, "40 acres and a mule" was their idea.

Stanton, aware of the great historical significance of the meeting, presented Henry Ward Beecher (Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous brother) a verbatim transcript of the discussion, which Beecher read to his congregation at New York's Plymouth Church and which the New York Daily Tribune printed in full in its Feb. 13, 1865, edition. Stanton told Beecher that "for the first time in the history of this nation, the representatives of the government had gone to these poor debased people to ask them what they wanted for themselves." Stanton had suggested to Sherman that they gather "the leaders of the local Negro community" and ask them something no one else had apparently thought to ask: "What do you want for your own people" following the war? And what they wanted astonishes us even today.

Who were these 20 thoughtful leaders who exhibited such foresight? They were all ministers, mostly Baptist and Methodist. Most curious of all to me is that 11 of the 20 had been born free in slave states, of which 10 had lived as free men in the Confederacy during the course of the Civil War. (The other one, a man named James Lynch, was born free in Maryland, a slave state, and had only moved to the South two years before.) The other nine ministers had been slaves in the South who became "contraband," and hence free, only because of the Emancipation Proclamation, when Union forces liberated them.

Their chosen leader and spokesman was a Baptist minister named Garrison Frazier, aged 67, who had been born in Granville, N.C., andwas a slave until 1857, "when he purchased freedom for himself and wife for $1000 in gold and silver," as the New York Daily Tribune reported. Rev. Frazier had been "in the ministry for thirty-five years," and it was he who bore the responsibility of answering the 12 questions that Sherman and Stanton put to the group. The stakes for the future of the Negro people were high.

And Frazier and his brothers did not disappoint. What did they tell Sherman and Stanton that the Negro most wanted? Land! "The way we can best take care of ourselves," Rev. Frazier began his answer to the crucial third question, "is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor … and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare … We want to be placed on land until we are able to buy it and make it our own." And when asked next where the freed slaves "would rather live -- whether scattered among the whites or in colonies by themselves," without missing a beat, Brother Frazier (as the transcript calls him) replied that "I would prefer to live by ourselves, for there is a prejudice against us in the South that will take years to get over … " When polled individually around the table, all but one -- James Lynch, 26, the man who had moved south from Baltimore -- said that they agreed with Frazier. Four days later, Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, after President Lincoln approved it.

What Became of the Land That Was Promised?

The response to the Order was immediate. When the transcript of the meeting was reprinted in the black publication Christian Recorder, an editorial note intoned that "From this it will be seen that the colored people down South are not so dumb as many suppose them to be," reflecting North-South, slave-free black class tensions that continued well into the modern civil rights movement. The effect throughout the South was electric: As Eric Foner explains, "the freedmen hastened to take advantage of the Order." Baptist minister Ulysses L. Houston, one of the group that had met with Sherman, led 1,000 blacks to Skidaway Island, Ga., where they established a self-governing community with Houston as the "black governor." And by June, "40,000 freedmen had been settled on 400,000 acres of 'Sherman Land.' " By the way, Sherman later ordered that the army could lend the new settlers mules; hence the phrase, "40 acres and a mule."

And what happened to this astonishingly visionary program, which would have fundamentally altered the course of American race relations? Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor and a sympathizer with the South, overturned the Order in the fall of 1865, and, as Barton Myers sadly concludes, "returned the land along the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida coasts to the planters who had originally owned it" -- to the very people who had declared war on the United States of America.

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Arlington National Cemetery was established on June 15, 1864, when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.    

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Events 6.15 (before 1900)

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. 1184 – The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and King Magnus V of Norway is killed. 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta. 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. 1246 – With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria. 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded. 1312 – At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a decisive victory over the family of Palatine Amade Aba. 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians. 1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor. 1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage. 1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine. 1607 – Virginia Colonists finished building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks. 1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1670 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta. 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown). 1776 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania. 1800 – The Provisional Army of the United States is dissolved. 1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document. 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain. 1834 – The looting of Safed commences. 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state. 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. 1846 – The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean. 1859 – Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers. 1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins. 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by the family of Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures. 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors. 1896 – One of the deadliest tsunamis in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.

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1865 is an absolutely fantastic audio drama that follows the fallout from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This is my review.

I figured I’d start my journey around here by sharing a review I did of one of my absolute favorite audio dramas.

What can I say about this audio drama that hasn’t already been said? Well, I’ll certainly try. 1865 is, without a doubt, one of the greatest audio dramas currently available. The music, soundscaping, and voice acting combine to create a truly cinematic experience.

1865 begins with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and all of the poltical fallout this caused. In the process we see the game of cat-and-mouse that emerges between Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and former Vice President Andrew Johnson. The podcast explores a little known, yet incredibly important, era of American History. Each episode is accompanied by a bonus behind the scenes episode where the cast and crew explain the facts behind the fiction. They discuss the few instances where they deviated from the historical record, and why they chose to do so. They also talk about how they put the show together; how they gathered sounds, how they created the music, and more.

The cast of composed of professional voice actors, many of whom have worked in the anime dubbing industry. It was a pleasant surprise that I recognized many of them. Of course, the producers are no slouches either. They’ve teamed up with Lindsay Graham, creator of the popular American History Tellers podcast. Everyone involved worked together, like a well oiled machine, to create an amazing audio drama podcast.

Well, there not really much more I can say here. I’ll link you to my full review over on my blog. And after you’ve read it, download 1865. Believe me when I say that you’ll be so glad that you did. If you have listened, what did you think?

Link to the full review on my blog: http://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-audio-file-1865.html?m=1

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40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

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40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks es una productora fundada por Spike Lee.

40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks

Cuarenta acres y una mula

Cuarenta acres y una mula es una frase que hace referencia a un suceso de la historia de los Estados Unidos. En la Orden Especial de Campo No. 15, proclamada por el General de la Unión William Tecumseh Sherman el 16 de enero de 1865 durante la Guerra de Secesión, se adjudicaron tierras a algunas familias liberadas en parcelas no mayores de 40 acres (16 hectáreas), a las cuales se les brindaba una mula para iniciar su reforma agraria. Dichas órdenes de campo fueron la consecuencia de una serie de conversaciones entre el Secretario de Guerra Edwin M. Stanton y los abolicionistas republicanos radicales Charles Sumner y Thaddeus Stevens tras las perturbaciones de la institución de la esclavitud provocadas por la Guerra Civil.

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The Battle of Milliken’s Bend was fought on June 7, 1863, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War. Major General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army had placed the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, under siege in mid-1863. Confederate leadership believed that Grant’s supply line still ran through Milliken’s Bend in Louisiana, and Major General Richard Taylor was tasked with disrupting it to aid the defense of Vicksburg. Taylor sent Brigadier General Henry E. McCulloch with a brigade of Texans to attack Milliken’s Bend, which was held by a brigade of newly-recruited African American soldiers. McCulloch’s attack struck early on the morning of June 7 and was successful in close-quarters fighting. Fire from the Union gunboat USS Choctaw halted the Confederate attack, and McCulloch withdrew after the arrival of a second gunboat. The attempt to relieve Vicksburg was unsuccessful. One of the first actions in which African American soldiers fought, Milliken’s Bend demonstrated the value of African American soldiers as part of the Union Army.

Leaders on both sides noted the performance of the African American troops at Milliken’s Bend. Unionist Charles Dana reported that the action convinced many in the Union Army to support the enlistment of African American soldiers. Dennis stated, “It is impossible for men to show greater gallantry than the Negro troops in this fight.” Grant described the battle as the first significant engagement in which the Colored Troops had seen combat, described their conduct as “most gallant” and said that “with good officers, they will make good troops.”Confederate leader McCulloch reported that while the white Union troops had been routed, the Colored Troop had fought with “considerable obstinacy.” One modern historian wrote in 1960 that the fighting at Milliken’s Bend brought “the acceptance of the Negro as a soldier”, which was important to “his acceptance as a man.”

Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton praised the performance of African American soldiers in the battle. He stated that their competent performance in the battle proved wrong to those who had opposed their service. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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“Message to President Abraham Lincoln nominating Joshua L. Chamberlain, of the 20th Maine Volunteers, to be Brigadier General,” 6/23/1864

File Unit: Executive Nominations of the First Session of the 38th Congress, 12/7/1863 - 7/4/1864. Series: Executive Nominations, 1789 - 2002. Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015.

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STANTON: The problem's their commander, Whiting. He engineered the fortress himself. The damned thing's his child; he'll defend it till his every last man is gone. He is not thinking rationally, he's - LINCOLN: "-Come on out, you old rat!" That's what Ethan Allen called to the commander of Fort Ticonderoga in 1776. "Come on out, you old rat!" `Course there were only forty- odd redcoats at Ticonderoga. But, but there is one Ethan Allen story that I'm very partial to... STANTON No! No, you're, you're going to tell a story! I don't believe that I can bear to listen to another one of your stories right now!

Bruce McGill as Edwin McMasters Stanton in Lincoln (2012)

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Women of the Confederacy (Pt. 6)

Women of the Confederacy (Pt. 6)

Loreta Janeta Valazquez

Loreta Janeta Velazquez (Harry T. Buford)  

Library of Congress 

  Loreta Janeta Velazquez – Fact or Fiction? 

A spy … 

A civilian pretending to be a soldier … 

A widow four times 

All of these phrases describe one of the most fascinating, thrill-seeking characters of the Civil War. Because she was a woman, Loreta Janeta Valezquez was able to fool her contemporaries while…

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Black History Spotlight:

Rev. Garrison Frazier

His words gave birth to the promise of “40 Acres and a Mule.”

Born in Granville County, North Carolina, he was enslaved for 60 years, until 1857, when he bought freedom for himself and his wife for $1,000 in gold and silver.  Rev. Frazier was a Baptist minister who, in 1865, had been in the ministry for 35 years.

On January 12, 1865, Rev. Frazier was chosen to serve as the spokesperson of a group of 20 Black clergymen who met with Union army general William T. Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Savannah, Georgia, to discuss matters relating to the freedmen in Georgia. This group of Black community leaders was asked - among other things - In what manner do you think [freedmen] can take care of yourselves?  Rev. Frazier, believing that the Union had a moral charge to help freed slaves become self sufficient, answered:  The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor–that is, by the labor of the women and children and old men; and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare. [...]  We want to be placed on land until we are able to buy it and make it our own.

Four days later, on January 16, 1865, General Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, which is now popularly known as “40 Acres and a Mule.” The order redistributed 400,000 acres of land - a strip of coastline, previously confiscated by the Union, stretching from Charleston, South Carolina to northern Florida - to newly freed slaves in 40 acre segments.

(Author’s note: As there is no official portrait of the Reverend, this is how I have imagined him. cc details below the cut.)

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