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Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) [Confederate Goverment document]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09208 Author/Creator: Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa October - November 1862 Pagination: 6 p. Order a Copy

Document containing clerical copies of correspondence over conscription in South Carolina written by Jefferson Davis; Governor Francis W. Pickens and the Executive Council; James Chestnut, Jr.; and G. W. Randolph. "Four Regiments to be accepted for 90 days having conscripts in them during that time, then ... disbanded. Conscripts in them to be assigned by the Secretary of War. Others in the Regiments not liable to conscription to be then discharged."

From the wartime papers of South Carolina Governors Francis W. Pickens and Milledge L. Bonham.

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