...resolution, which Davis approved May 1st, 1863, declaring that all white officers of negro Union soldiers " shall, if captured, be put to death or be otherwise punished " at the discretion of a summary court-martial. A counter order by President Lincoln, issued July 30th, 1863, after the pronounced...

...resolution, which Davis approved May 1st, 1868, declaring that all white officers of negro Union soldiers " shall, if captured, be put to death or be otherwise punished " at the discretion of a summary court-martial. A counter order by President Lincoln, issued July 30th, 1868, after the pronounced...

...commissioned officer commanding negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate states shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection and shall,...otherwise punished at the discretion of the court," and also providing that the negro and mulatto soldiers so captured should be delivered to the authorities...

...joint resolution of the Confederate Congress 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 general orders of some subordinate Confederate commanders repeated or rivaled such denunciations and...

...had passed a joint resolution which prescribed that white officers of negro Union soldiers should " if captured be put to death or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court." This command was never carried out, and the Fort Pillow incident is the only record of cruelty to negro...

...had passed a joint resolution which prescribed that white officers of negro Union soldiers should " if captured be put to death or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court." This command was never carried out, and the Fort Pillow incident is the only record of cruelty to negro...

...aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death or otherwise punished at the discretion of the Court." The law also provided for hanging or shooting colored...

...aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall, be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall,...otherwise punished at the discretion of the court." Section 7 of the same act provides like punishment for negroes or mulattoes taken in arms. While Mr....

.... . . who shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States . . . shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall...otherwise punished at the discretion of the Court." A final section provided that the negroes captured should be delivered to the authorities of the States...

...aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall,...otherwise punished at the discretion of the court. Sec. 5. Every person, being a commissioned officer or acting as such in the service of the enemy, who...