Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 13

Unsold
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AFRICAN AMERICANS.) War Department General Orders No. 323 authorizing "under-cooks of African descent." Printed order, one page, 7 1/4 x 5 inches; minor staining, punched holes in left margin. Washington, 28 September 1863

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With General Order No. 297, ordering among other things that "the colored troops of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina will be organized into a new Corps, to be called the 25th Corps." Washington, 3 December 1864.