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Lot 254
Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
Lots Open
Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$300 -
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$900
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[CIVIL WAR]. Gen. Orders, No.77, Dept. of the South, prohibiting improper use of US Colored Troops.
One page, approx. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Signed in blue ink by Israel R. Sealy as Captain 47th N.Y. Vols., and Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
In part: "It has come to the knowledge of the Brig. Gen. Commanding that detachments of colored troops, detailed for fatigue duty, have been employed...to prepare camps and perform menial duty for white troops. Such use of these details is unauthorized and improper, and is hereafter expressly prohibited...By Order of Brig. Gen. Q. A. Gillmore."
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents