A bill to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications and perform other labor connected with the defences of the country.
Contributors: Confederate States of America Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1864
Place of publication: [Richmond
Language: eng
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army -- African American troops; African Americans -- Employment; Draft -- Confederate States of America; Confederate States of America -- Defenses
Other titles: Senate bill no. 129, Senate, Dec. 6, 1864. Read first and second times, and placed on the calendar. December 12, 1864.  Amended, read a third time, and passed. December 13, 1864.  Reconsidered, amended, engrossed, read a third time, and passed. James H. Nash, Secretary.; House of Representatives, Dec. 15, 1864.  Read first and second times, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed
Notes: Crandall, M.L.  Confederate imprints, 184