Wednesday, August 07, 2013

"Slates'" Vault has item on Lincoln's Order No. 252 on the treatment of African American POWs by the Confederates

The link to the article with pictures of the documents is here:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/08/06/abraham_lincoln_the_president_s_general_order_to_protect_black_pows_from.html


This will of course lead to delusional ravings by neo-Confederates about supposed Afro-Confederate soldiers. (I really can't call them African AMERICAN Confederate soldiers. That would be self-contradictory.)

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