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" That every White person, being a commissioned officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military... "
The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ... - Page 227
1864
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History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as ..., Volume 2

George Washington Williams - African Americans - 1882 - 1152 pages
...officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against*the Confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise,...
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History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes ..., Volumes 1-2

George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...be excited, a servile insurrection, or who shall incite, or cause to be incited, a slave or rebel, shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court. President may direct, and in such manner and under such regulations as the President shall prescribe...
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Campaign of '84: Biographies of S. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic ...

Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...Every white commissioned officer commanding negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection,...otherwise punished, at the discretion of the court. Every person charged with an offence made punishable, under the act shall be tried by the military...
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A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 ...

George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1887 - 400 pages
...cause to be excited, a servile insurrection, or shall incite, or cause to be incited, a slave or rebel, shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the Court. the military court attached to the army or corps by the troops of which he shall have been captured,...
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The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in ...

Joseph Thomas Wilson - United States - 1890 - 542 pages
...commissioned officer, or acting as such,*who during the present war shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...against the Confederate States, or who shall voluntarily use negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack or conflict, in such service, shall be...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 6

John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...resolution, approved by Davis May 1, 1863, which prescribed that white officers of negro Union soldiers " shall, if captured, be put to death or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court," the trial to take place " before the military court cs attached to the army or corps" making the capture,...
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American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a ...

Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...white commissioned officer commanding negroes or inulattoes in arms against the Confederate States shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection,...otherwise punished, at the discretion of the court. Every person charged with an offence made punishable under the act shall be triiid by the military...
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Military Essays and Recollections: Papers Read Before the Commandery of the ...

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Illinois - United States - 1894 - 576 pages
...negroes or mulattoes for military service against the Confederate States, or shall voluntarily aid them in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict, in...insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death or otherwise punished, at the discretion of the Court." This was no idle threat. The Confederates meant...
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History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry ...

Luis Fenollosa Emilio - Massachusetts - 1894 - 536 pages
...officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes m anus against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service agamst the Confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise,...
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Massachusetts in the Army and Navy During the War of 1861-1865, Volume 1

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Massachusetts - 1896 - 674 pages
...officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulnttoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm,...inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, he put to death, or he otherwise punished at the discretion of the court." The career of the Massachusetts...
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