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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03860 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862 |
| Title | Petition of inhabitants of Scipio and Venice to the Congress of the United States |
| Date | 23 January 1862 |
| Author | Fitch, Alvah (b. ca. 1828) |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Government document; Legal document |
| Content Description | Inhabitants of Cayuga County, New York, ask Congress to pass a law "reducing all the rebellious States to Territories declare all the slaves free and as soon as the rebels can be drove out of a State or subdued give each resident of the State without regard to color a certain number of acres of land and so of legal Persons who will become occupants from other parts arm the men declare every male inhabitant 21 years of age or over a legal voter and give the inhabitants a right to form a State upon free republican principles." Signed by Fitch and 22 other residents of Scipio and Venice. |
| Subjects | Civil War Petition Military History Union Forces Statehood Government and Civics Abolition Slavery African American History Confederate States of America Suffrage Land Transaction Weaponry |
| People | Fitch, Alvah (b. ca. 1828) |
| Place written | Venice, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |