Special orders no. 16
Subtitle: Headquarters, Department of Mississippi, Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 8, 1865. Paragraph 2. A Special Commission is hereby appointed to investigate the circumstances concerning the ownership, leasing and appropriation to the public service of the Turner and Quitman Plantations at Davis' Bend, Mississippi
Series: Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
Publisher: United States Army, Department of Mississippi
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Memphis, Tenn
Language: eng
Subjects: African American troops; Regulations; Military orders; Freed persons; Plantations; History; United States. Army
Notes: Caption title.

Signed: by order of Major General N. J. T. Dana: T. H. Harris, Assistant Adjutant General; Official: (blank) Assistant Adjutant General.

With list of names, detail for the Commission: Brig. General John P. Hawkins, U.S. Volunteers; Col. Samuel Thomas, 64th U.S. Colored Infantry; Lieut. Col. Cyrus Sears, 49th U.S. Colored Infantry.

The Commission is to determine "whether there is an overruling military necessity that the plantations should be appropriated to the use of Freedmen ..."

Printed area measures 13 x 9 cm

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From the library of Charles Sumner.

Autograph signature of Official: J. Warren Miller, Assistant Adjutant General.