General Orders No. 24. Order from the Department of the South, drafting “all negroes in private service.”

by Major General David Hunter

$5,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Hilton Head, South Carolina, 19 March 1863. Circular, 7.6” x 4.75” on lined sheet with integral blank. CONDITION: Very good, minor foxing. A general order exempting from the draft African American men already employed by the Union Army, issued by a Union General most famous for attempting to abolish slavery in several southern states prior to the Emancipation

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