Head Quarters Department of Virginia, Army of the James. General Court Martial Orders, No. 55. Order for the execution of an African American soldier.

by Assistant Adjutant General Edward W. Smith

$3,750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Richmond, Virginia, 9 April 1865. Circular, 8” x 5”. 1 p. CONDITION: Very good, a few tiny stains, old vertical folds, one tiny puncture at upper-right, but no losses to the text. An apparently unrecorded circular detailing the Court Martial of an African American soldier and former Virginia slave who was convicted of three charges and executed by firing squad. As

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