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- GLC#
- GLC04511
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 7 July 1862
- Author/Creator
- Van Buren, Daniel T., 1826-1890
- Title
- to John M. Cuyler
- Place Written
- Hampton, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Suggesting that contrabands, formerly enslaved people who had escaped to the Union army, be tasked with collecting corpses. "It is suggested that Contrabands be Employed to bring down & put in the waggons the dead bodies which, Emit these foul discharges over the clothes of these soldiers, and also that they accompany the bodies to the graves for the purpose of lifting them from the waggons at that place." The original complaint regarding the "foul discharges" is noted on the docket. Written at Fort Monroe
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