<<I am trying to find information from the Emancipation Proclamation to the 14th amendment (freeing slaves).>> You mean the time period?? The Proclamation was a military order made by Lincoln. He freed the slaves in the "rebellious states only" and not freeing slaves in the Northern States. He did not free the slaves. The 13th Amendment freed the slaves. There was no compensation which violated the 5th amendment. <Were slave owners compensated for the loss of their slaves? Was it done like in the movies where the Yankees road in and the slaves started walking north?>> I have no idea. Few things were like the movies. There were blacks who fought and worked for the South and North. <These questions were generated by the Park Service during a tour of an antebellum house when he said "The slaves were freed in 1868 - after the owner was paid." >>>> That is news to me. I would like to see that supported. <<I also have documentation where the county govt of Tazewell Co, Va. wrote to Richmond (capital - CSA) stating that they did not have any slaves available for conscription and all their blacks were freemen.>>> I would love to see that too. Thanks. -eddie Paul "No One Polled Me!"