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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05061 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | General orders, no. 1-400 and no. 1-380 |
| Date | 1863-1864 |
| Author | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Document Type | Book |
| Content Description | 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. |
| Subjects | President Government and Civics Presidential Speeches and Proclamations Civil War Union Forces Military History Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation Slavery African American History Fortification Confederate States of America African American Troops |
| People | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Government & Politics; Law; Slavery & Abolition; The Presidency |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |