Sawtelle, Charles Greene, 1834-1913 to Perley P. Pitkin
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02849 Author/Creator: Sawtelle, Charles Greene, 1834-1913 Place Written: Charles City, Virginia Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 24 July 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 21 x 13 cm. Order a Copy
General order instructs Pitkin to send "a competent person" to meet "five hundred contrabands" and bring them rations. "Contrabands" were freed enslaved people employed by the Union army. Written as Captain. Written at Harrison's Landing, Virginia.
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