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- GLC#
- GLC07293
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1865/05/04
- Author/Creator
- Steele, Frederick, 1819-1868
- Title
- General Orders no. 3 [inability of government to help black refugees]
- Place Written
- Montgomery
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Informing people that "destitution and distress is likely to arise from the influx of the colored population into this city. People of this class are informed that it is impossible for the United States Government to feed them and they are advised to remain of the plantations and assist to raise crops to keep themselves and their children from starving." Signed by Joseph Lymun as Adjutant General to Major General F. Steele.
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