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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08980.04 |
| From Archive Folder | Confederate acts and resolutions |
| Title | A bill to be entitled an act to increase and strengthen the army of the Confederate States. |
| Date | 22 January 1863 |
| Document Type | Military document |
| Content Description | Confederate act granting the President the power to call slaves "to serve as teamsters, cooks, laborers and hospital nurses" in the Confederate Army. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Hospital Government and Civics Slavery African American History Labor |
| Place written | Richmond, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; 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 |