Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) [General orders, 1863, no. 1-400 (3 vols), and 1864 no. 1-380 (3 vols)]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05061 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Book Date: 1863-1864 Pagination: 6 v. ; 18.5 x 13.5 cm. Order a Copy
Bound copies of general orders for 1863 and 1864 printed by the Government Printing Office. Includes Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863 #1), "Regulations for the care of field works, and the government of their garrisons" (1863 #45), Lincoln's proclamation "Respecting soldiers absent without leave" (1863 #58), orders "In respect to the regulating of intercourse with the insurrectionary states..." (1863 #100). Finally, concerning black troops, some of them former slaves, "A Bureau is established... relating to the organization of colored troops" (1863 # 143). Volume 1, 2, 5, and 6 are signed as presented to the Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton, Massachusetts by Lieutenant William Horace Woodman, 1st Massachusetts Battery Artillery, 3 years service, in 1889.
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