| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| January 1, 1865 |
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| 1,000 Negroes Called For |
| Headquarters |
| Augusta, Dec. 27, 1864 |
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| By order of General
Beauregard, the planters and citizens of Green, Taliaferro, Wilkes, Oglethorpe,
Clark, Morgan, Newton, Walton and DeKalb counties are hereby required
to furnish the necessary slave labor to repair the Georgia Railroad
from Greensboro to Atlanta. |
| The quota of labor to be
supplied will be in the proportion of one to five of all negro men
between the ages of 18 and 45 years. |
| As this work is of the utmost
importance and the order peremptory, the owners of negroes are hereby
notified to deliver them at the Depots of Greensboro and Madison, on
the 1st day of January, 1865, supplied with blankets, shovels, axes
and picks, which will be returned with them. The Quartermasters at eh
above depots will receive the negroes, and give receipts for same,
with valuation, and they will be returned to the owners in ninety
days, or less time if the work is finished. |
| Overseers who are competent
will be employed at $5 per day, including rations and transportation. |
| C. L. Sayre |
| Major and Agent of Impressment |
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