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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08419 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | A bill to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications and the defences of the country |
| Date | 15 December 1864 |
| Author | Congress of the Confederate States |
| Document Type | Government document; Legal document |
| Content Description | Senate Bill 129, passed by the Confederate Senate 13th December 1864. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives 15 December 1864. States that "The Congress of the Confederate States of American do enact, That all free male negroes, between the ages of eighteen and fifty years, shall be held liable to perform any labor or discharge any duties with the army ... such as working upon fortifications, producing and preparing materials of war, building and preparing roads and bridges ... " Includes guidelines for the impressment of slaves, placing the Secretary of War and the general commanding the trans-Mississippi department in charge of impressment procedures. Contains the name of James H. Nash, Confederate Secretary of State. Contains a Rebel Archives stamp. Possibly created in Richmond, Virginia. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Labor Slavery African American History Government and Civics Infrastructure Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Freemen Fortification Impressment |
| People | Nash, James H. (fl. 1864) |
| Place written | s.l. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |