Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 415

Unsold
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
SHERMAN, W[ILLIAM] T[ECUMSEH]. General Orders No 50, Headquarters, Eastern District of Louisiana. Single tall 8vo leaf (8-1/2 x 5-1/2), printed on one side; punch-holes to left margin. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1865

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An order from General Sherman, ordering that all posts and stations north of New Orleans and west of the Mississippi file weekly reports of 'all events of note,' adding that 'these reports will also state how far the colored population are carrying out the views of the Government in bending to constant employment and industry, and laying the groundwork of their future welfare, or how far they are disposed to be idle and dissolute.