The Civil War Confiscation Acts [electronic resource] : failing to reconstruct the South / John Syrett.

The First Confiscation Act
The Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents
The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result
Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and bates
Early military confiscation
Rules of war and later military confiscation
The Treasury's part in confiscation
The politics of confiscation
Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation
Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures
Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration.