The full content of this document is only available to subscribing institutions. More information can be found via www.amdigital.co.uk
If you believe you should have access to this document, click here to Login.
| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06745.162 |
| From Archive Folder | Confederate imprints: handbills, pamphlets, and Confederate laws |
| Title | (House of Representatives, No. 367.) A bill To be entitled An Act to increase the military force of the Confederate States |
| Date | 10 February 1865 |
| Author | Congress of the Confederate States |
| Document Type | Government document |
| Content Description | Authorizing the President "to organize slaves into companies, battalions, regiments and brigades," but keeping them as slaves. Stamp of record division. |
| Subjects | African American History Slavery Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Government and Civics Law African American Troops |
| Place written | Richmond, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |