Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(MILITARY.) General Orders No 15, authorizing equal pay for the colored troops. Head Quarters 3d Division, 18th Corps d'Armee, Camp Hamilton Virginia . . . Signed in type by Brig. General Solon A Carter. 7 3/4 x 5 inches, framed. Virginia, 1st May, 1864

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While this field order was issued on the first of May, the Act of Congress was not passed until June and mustering did not occur until late August-September.