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Drake, George Bernard (1838-1921) Regulations for the government of Negroes and plantations.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08446 Author/Creator: Drake, George Bernard (1838-1921) Place Written: New Orleans, Louisiana Type: Pamphlet Date: 3 February 1864 Pagination: 1 v. : 5 p. ; 20.7 x 13.1 cm. Order a Copy

Issued by command of Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. Provides for the division of parishes, the establishment of schools for black children, forbids soldiers to visit plantations without written consent of their commanding officer, forbids flogging and other cruel punishments, calls for employers to implement share cultivation and the establishment of banks, etc. Drake issues the order as Assistant Adjutant General.

George Bernard Drake was a Union soldier who served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 12th Massachusetts and then the 6th U.S. Infantry at the beginning the Civil War. He was later an aide-de camp and adjutant officer and was brevetted Brigadier General, Volunteers. He served in Bank's Red River expedition and was wounded at Antietam.

Drake, George Bernard, 1838-1921
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

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