2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Confederate Imprint, 9p. octavo, August 4, 1863, Richmond, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, being General Orders No. 108, which states in small part: “…That every white person being a commissioned officer, or acting as such, who during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against the Confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack or conflict, in such service, shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court…All negroes and mulattoes who shall be engaged in war, or be taken in arms against the Confederate States, or shall give aid or comfort to the enemies of the Confederate States, shall, when captured in the Confederate States, be delivered to the authorities of the State or States in which they shall be captured, to be dealt with according to the present or future laws of such State or States…” VG.
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