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- GLC#
- GLC05061.05-View header record
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1863-1864
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [General orders, 1864 no. 1-380 (3 vols)] vol 2
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 v. Height: 18.5 cm, Width: 13.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
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, 5, and 6 are signed as presented to the Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton, Massachusetts by Lieutenant William Horace Woodman, 1st Massachusetts Battery Artillery, 3 years service, in 1889.
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