In “Mysteries of a Shamble,” published in the New-York Tribune on July 15, 1861, an unnamed writer republishes excerpts from a cache of letters between slave traders discovered by Union troops in occupied Alexandria. The article’s author may have been Moncure Daniel Conway.
“The Richmond Freedmen,” published in the New-York Tribune on June 17, 1865, describes the meeting between five prominent African American men from Richmond and President Andrew Johnson, which took place at the White House, in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 1865. The men met with Johnson to complain about “the wrongs, as we conceive them to be, by which we are sorely oppressed.”
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