Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Wickham or search for Wickham in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. Blandford, the House resolved into secret session. The doors being opened, Mr. Baldwin, of Virginia, from the Special Committee on Impressments, reported a bill "to provide for the establishment and payment of claims for certain descriptions of property informally impressed for the use of the army." Approved June 4, 1864. Mr. Hanly, of Arkansas, moved to amend by inserting in the second section, after the word "actually," the words, "and necessarily"; which was agreed to. Mr. Wickham, of Virginia, offered the following amendment as an independent section: "The said commissioners shall also receive and take proof in relation to timber, fuel and materials taken or informally impressed in like manner as is provided in the case of forage, etc., in the act of which this is an amendment." The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed. Mr. Baldwin also reported a bill "relative to the impressment of slaves," with a recommendation that it do pass. The bill was passed