2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Military General Orders No. 69, 1p. octavo, August 14, 1868, and reads in part: "...Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Lieutenant General W.T. Sherman be, and is hereby, authorized and requested to use the most efficient means his judgment will approve, to reclaim from peonage the women and children of the Navajo Indians, now held in slavery in the territory adjacent to their homes, and the reservation on which the Navajo Indians have been confined..." Issued by Command of General Grant. VG.
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