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Collection Reference Number GLC09223
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863 
Title James Seddon to Governor Bonham responding to resolutions passed by the South Carolina General Assembly
Date 16 October 1863
Author Seddon, James A. (James Alexander) (1815-1880)  
Recipient Bonham, Milledge Luke  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Responds to resolutions passed by the South Carolina General Assembly, which feels burdened by the Confederate government's taxation and impressment of slaves for military labor. "[I]t has been the studious effort of the Department to temper its execution by as much of leniency, discretion, and generality as was compatible with its due enforcement or the accumulation of adequate supplies essential to the army." With autograph endorsement signed by Bonham.
Subjects Taxes or Taxation  Confederate States of America  Slavery  African American History  Military History  
People Bonham, Milledge Luke (1813-1890)  Seddon, James Alexander (1815-1880)  
Place written Richmond, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics
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