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Collection Reference Number GLC06745.076
From Archive Folder Confederate imprints: handbills, pamphlets, and Confederate laws 
Title (House bill.) . . . A bill to be entitled An act to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities
Date 5 January 1864
Author Congress of the Confederate States  
Document Type Government document
Content Description stamp of record division
Subjects African American History  Slavery  Civil War  Military History  Confederate States of America  Government and Civics  Law  Freemen  African American Troops  Impressment  
Place written Richmond, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945