Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 402

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO. General Orders No. 6. Single small 8vo leaf, printed on one side only. Knoxville, TN, January 7, 1864

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A very interesting and telling order: "All able bodied colored men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, within our lines, except those employed in the several Staff Departments, officers servants, those servants to loyal citizens who prefer remaining with their masters, will be sent forthwith to Knoxville, London or Kingston Tenn, to be enrolled under the direction of Brig. Gen. Davis Tillson."