- Lincoln's 10% Plan: Approved by 10% of 1860 voters
- Lincoln's 10% Plan: pardons for all pledging future loyalty to Union and the U.S. constitution
- Lincoln's 10% Plan: Adopted abolition of slavery
- Lincoln's 10% Plan: Adopted new state constitution
- Lincoln's 10% Plan: Restoration of State, louisiana; later Arkansas and Tennessee.
- Proclamation of Amnesty: December 1863