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Gilder Lehrman Document Number:
GLC01024
Title: General orders no. 139.
Author: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Year: 1862/09/24
Place: Washington, D.C.
Type of document: Printed document
Description: Preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation published for the Army. War Department printing, removed from a compilation of general orders. Paginated 117-120. "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, Shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..." Beginning on Page 120 but not complete is General Orders No. 140, order respecting Special Provost Marshals and defining their duties.
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