General orders
By: Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, January 29, 1862 [i.e. 1863]
Contributors: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894; Irwin, Richard B. (Richard Biddle), 1839-1892; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
Publisher: [Dept. of the Gulf]
Published: 1863
Place of publication: New Orleans]
Language: eng
Subjects: United States; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); Regulations; Sources; Slaves; Emancipation; United States. Army; History
Other titles: Promulgating the Emancipation proclamation
Notes: Caption title.

Signed on p. 2: By command of Major General Banks : Richard B. Irwin, Lieutenant Colonel, Assistant Adjutant General.

Includes text of the proclamation (p. 2-3); signed at end: Abraham Lincoln.

Folder, with four perforations along spine.

Date in caption corrected in pencil.