"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.)