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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08979.05 |
| From Archive Folder | Confederate acts and resolutions |
| Title | Joint Resolutions in reference to the treatment of colored troops |
| Date | 15 February 1864 |
| Document Type | Military document |
| Content Description | Confederate act resolves that the abolition of slavery is against the rules of war and that former slaves who are captured while fighting for the Union will be returned to their masters. States "emancipation of the negro slaves within the Confederate States by the enemy, is not among the acts of legitimate war; but is...among such acts as 'putting to death all prisoners in cold blood.'" With war department stamp. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Law Slavery Prisoner of War Abolition African American History African American Troops Contrabands Union Forces Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation Atrocity |
| Place written | Richmond, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans |
| 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 |