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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 mar-
gin, having been removed from a larger
volume of orders.
SIGNED BY THE
A
SSISTANT
A
DJUTANT
G
ENERAL
, W.L.M.
B
URGER
.
H
ILTON
H
EAD
, SC, 21 J
ANUARY
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 accord-
ingly.” This order outlines the various “limits
of the Districts,” the geographical points, covered
by the Order, from the Carolinas to Florida.
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