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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC05987.40 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of Confederate Imprints and Broadsides |
Title | General order no. 6 exempting certain persons from military service |
Date | 4 August 1863 |
Author | Greer, Elkanah Brackin (1825-1877) |
Document Type | Broadside; Military document |
Content Description | Orders are issued by Confederate General Greer from Headquarters, Bureau of Conscription, Trans-Mississippi Department. Exempts one person per plantation (an owner, agent, or overseer) if the plantation has at least twenty slaves. Contains several ink stains, most on verso, and a faint pencil docket. |
Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Confederate General or Leader Conscription African American History Slavery |
People | Greer, Elkanah Brackin (1825-1877) |
Place written | Shreveport, Louisiana |
Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Industry |
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 |