25 November 1864: “All such property shall be upon a like footing with similar property within the lines.”

Item Description: A general order removing protection from the lands and nearby plantations. This order would allow officers to use the property of nearby landowners.

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Item Citation: From Folder 37, in the George William Logan Papers #1560, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Item Transcription:

Head Quarters Divn. Weston La
Alexandrea Nov.25th 1864

General Orders
No. 133

It is hereby ordered that all “safe guards” heretofore given from these Head Quarters for the protection from Govt Officers of cotton and other products, negroes and plantations situated beyond the lines of this command as there way be at anytime established, be recinded. All such property shall be upon a like footing with similar property within the lines.

By command of 
Line Genreal Buckner
J. N. Galleher 
A. A. Genl. 

To
Head Gen. Logan 
comd, 3nd Batt. La. Hy. Arty. 

 

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