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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08418 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Amendment to senate bill to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and to perform other labor connected with the defences of the country |
| Date | ca. 15 December 1864 |
| Author | Congress of the Confederate States |
| Document Type | Government document; Legal document |
| Content Description | (Senate Bill 129) Provides corrections for Confederate Senate Bill 129. Establishes guidelines for the number of slaves that can be impressed from one owner. States that the Secretary of War is authorized to exempt certain areas from the act if "the labor of the slaves therein is indispensable to the production of grain" or if the slaves are "necessarily employed on works of internal improvement of importance to the common defence." Includes a Rebel Archives stamp. Possibly created in Richmond, Virginia. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Labor Slavery African American History Government and Civics Infrastructure Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Freemen Fortification Impressment |
| Place written | s.l. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Document itself is undated, but date is inferred from GLC08419. GLC08419 is Confederate Senate Bill 129, the bill which the present document amends. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |