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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05987.35 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Confederate Imprints and Broadsides |
| Title | Special Order no. 357 publishing food prices to prevent speculation |
| Date | 23 May 1862 |
| Author | Rosser, Thomas H. (fl. 1862) |
| Document Type | Broadside |
| Content Description | Published two weeks before Memphis fell into Union hands. Prints a "tariff of prices" on food to prevent a black market. Says "extortioners, of any shape or kind, that they will be held to a strict accountability, both in person and property, for wrecking so mean and cowardly, an advantage over those who natural protectors are on the tented field." Order issued on the command of Colonel Thomas H. Rosser and Acting Post Adjutant Thomas M. Crowder. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Finance Economics Diet and Nutrition |
| Place written | Memphis, Tennessee |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Agriculture; Banking & Economics |
| 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 |