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1864 special order issued from the “Major-General in charge of conscription in Alabama” for the enrolling and organizing of “twenty-five hundred slaves, between 18 and 50 years of age, for service for twelve months”

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1864 Special Order Issued From the “major-general In Charge of Conscription In Alabama” for the Enrolling and Organizing of “twenty-five Hundred Slaves, Between 18 and 50 Years of Age, for Service for Twelve Months”. . 1864. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54529.

APA citation style

(1864). 1864 special order issued from the “Major-General in charge of conscription in Alabama” for the enrolling and organizing of “twenty-five hundred slaves, between 18 and 50 years of age, for service for twelve months”. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54529.

Chicago citation style

1864 Special Order Issued From the “major-General In Charge of Conscription In Alabama” for the Enrolling and Organizing of “twenty-Five Hundred Slaves, Between 18 and 50 Years of Age, for Service for Twelve Months”. 1864. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54529.

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  • The order was to “increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities…”. The document includes the numbers of slaves that needed to be obtained from each county “in order to make up the twenty-five hundred required for the State”.
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