1863-1864
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Book
Title: [General orders, 1864 no. 1-380 (3 vols)] vol 1
Bound copies of general orders for 1863 and 1864 printed by the Government Printing Office. Includes Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863 #1), "Regulations for the care of field works, and the government of their garrisons" (1863 #45), Lincoln's proclamation "Respecting soldiers absent without leave" (1863 #58), orders "In respect to the regulating of intercourse with the insurrectionary states..." (1863 #100). Finally, concerning Black military troops, some of them recently freemen, "A Bureau is established... relating to the organization of colored troops" (1863 # 143). Volume 1, 2,…
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