(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) SHERMAN WILLIAM T General Order No 8 H

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) SHERMAN, WILLIAM T. General Order No. 8. Headquarters Department of the South. Single 8vo leaf of lined paper, taken from a notebook, printed on one side; two neat punctures in the left margin, having been removed from a larger volume of orders. signed by the Assistant Adjutant General, W.L.M. Burger. Hilton Head, SC, 21 January 1865

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major general j.g. foster's order acknowledging sherman's special order no. 15, in compliance thereof. Foster states that "Brigadier General Saxon has been assigned by the Major General (Sherman) Commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi in Special Field Order No 15 . . . to the duties of providing for the well being of the Negroes and their location on the plantations, as Inspector of Settlements and Plantations, is hereby announced as such and will be respected accordingly." This order outlines the various "limits of the Districts," the geographical points, covered by the Order, from the Carolinas to Florida.