2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Official issuance of General Orders No. 9, 1p. octavo, Washington, February 6, 1868, penned "Recd. Hd. Qurs. 31st Inf." at bottom it reads in part: "...The following Resolution of Congress is published for the information of all concerned...JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of destitute persons in the South. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be hereby authorized to issue, for the relief of any and all classes of destitutes in the South, such desiccated potatoes and desic[c]ated mixed vegetables as have accumulated during the war and are not needed for use in the army; the same to be issued under the direction of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands..." VG.
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