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- GLC#
- GLC06310
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 17 August 1863
- Author/Creator
- Gardner, Franklin, 1823-1873
- Title
- [Parole of General Frank Gardner and Lieutenant Alcee Dupre]
- Place Written
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 31.9 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Paroles of honor signed by Gardner and Dupre as prisoners of war after the surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana on 9 July 1863. "We ... Officers of the Confederate Army, and prisoners of War, do hereby give this, our Parole of Honor, that we will not escape or attempt to escape from the building or premises, now occupied by us." Signed by Captain Eugene Tindale as a witness. Gardner was a Confederate major general.
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