General G.F. Shepley order, 1863

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Title

General G.F. Shepley order, 1863

Subject

Shepley, George F. (George Foster), 1860-1903; Freedmen - Louisiana

Description

Order of General George F. Shepley, military governor of Louisiana, that William Furniss (possibly the prominent abolitionist Willian Henry Furness) is to visit all plantations in the state and is to be allowed free access to all colored persons on the plantations.

Creator

General G.F. Shepley

Source

French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, and Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Documents Digital Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Publisher

n/a

Date

05-14-1863

Contributor

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University

Rights

Digital reproductions of this item from Tulane University's Special Collections Division are made available under an assertion of fair use (17 U.S.C. 107) for noncommercial educational and research purposes only. Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their beneficiaries, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless copyright was signed over to Tulane University.

Format

Image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A94539

Coverage

1863, New Orleans