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- GLC#
- GLC08472
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- February 14, 1865
- Author/Creator
- Confederate States of America. Congress
- Title
- Amendment to the negro soldier bill
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 15.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Invests the Confederate General-in-Chief with the power to call slaves in to military service. States that clothing and rations will be provided to slaves impressed or voluntarily offered for service by their owner. States "By Mr. Swan" (likely Confederate Congressman William Graham Swan). Contains a Rebel Archives stamp. Possibly created in Richmond, Virginia.
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