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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08446 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1864 |
| Title | Regulations for the government of Negroes and plantations. |
| Date | 3 February 1864 |
| Author | Drake, George Bernard (1838-1921) |
| Document Type | Pamphlet; Military document; Government document |
| Content Description | Issued by command of Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. Provides for the division of parishes, the establishment of schools for black children, forbids soldiers to visit plantations without written consent of their commanding officer, forbids flogging and other cruel punishments, calls for employers to implement share cultivation and the establishment of banks, etc. Drake issues the order as Assistant Adjutant General. |
| Subjects | New Orleans Education Reform Civil War Military History Union General Union Forces Reconstruction Confederate States of America Slavery African American History Children and Family Education Banking Military Law |
| People | Drake, George Bernard (1838-1921) Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss (1816-1894) |
| Place written | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Education; Children & Family; Agriculture; Reconstruction |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | George Bernard Drake was a Union soldier who served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 12th Massachusetts and then the 6th U.S. Infantry at the beginning the Civil War. He was later an aide-de camp and adjutant officer and was brevetted Brigadier General, Volunteers. He served in Bank's Red River expedition and was wounded at Antietam. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach |