People of the Journey
In the midst of the relatively new and increasingly bloody American Civil War, American journalist Horace Greeley, writing in the New York Tribune, called directly for President Lincoln to more vigorously enforce the recently passed Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862. The Confiscation Acts were designed to allow Northern Union forces to confiscate property from the breakaway Southern Confederate states during the United States Civil War. This may sound to us like an unsavoury but perhaps necessary set of actions to take during wartime, but there is more to the story.