1 September 1864
Pratt, William M., fl. 1864
[General orders no. 60 regarding the recruitment of African American soldiers]
Signed by Pratt as Aide-de-Camp (possibly of Brigadier General Innes Newton Palmer). States that some officers "procure negroes and send them to particular agents, receiving from them pecuniary reward." Orders that commanding officers must send...
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