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Ex-Rebels Can't Wear Their Uniforms in Public
Ex-Rebels Can't Wear Their Uniforms in Public
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Printed General Orders No. 62, 4pp. 8vo., "Headquarters, Department of the South", Hilton Head, May 15, 1865 officially transmitting War Dept. General Orders No. 73, Apr. 24, 1865 which is the text of a letter by Attorney General James Speed responding to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's letter questioning the terms of Lee's surrender to Grant. Stanton asks if those who had previously lived in Washington but had left the city to reside in Richmond or fight for the Confederacy should be allowed to return, and he also complains of ex-soldiers still wearing their Confederate uniforms in public. Speed restates the terms of the surrender and concludes the ex-rebels would not be permitted to return to their homes in the North and considered the wearing of their old uniforms to be "a traitors garb...wearing of such uniform is an act of hostility…by command of Major-General Q. A. Gillmore." Signed and made official by Capt. T. D. Hodges of the 35th USCT. Fine.
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