Letter from Edwin McMasters Stanton, Washington, [D.C.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Feb[ruary] 19 1865

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Edwin McMasters Stanton, Washington, [D.C.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Feb[ruary] 19 1865
Description:
Edwin M. Stanton forwards to William Lloyd Garrison a copy of the "Minutes" of he and General William Sherman's interview with the "Colored Ministers and Church Members of Savannah". Stanton asserts his hopes that the minutes will do much to quiet the "misapprehensions and misgivings in the minds of many persons". Stantons informs Garrison that General Sherman's "laws to the colored people" were applied only days following the interview, and defends this legislation against claims that it is "evincing hostility to the blacks by setting them apart" by asserting that this decision was based upon the urging of those interviewed.
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Author:
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Date:
February 19, 1865
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Freedmen--United States--History--19th century
Land reform--United States--History--19th century
Military orders--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Freed persons--United States
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Land reform
Military orders
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 19.7 x 24.9 cm.
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Washington, [D.C.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "War Department / Washington City".
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "See Life of W. L. G., 4: 132." in black ink above header, and "29" in pencil beneath Stanton's note of "Private" to the left of header.
Manuscript annotated on verso, with "MS A.1.2 v.34, p.21" in pencil along left margin of page.
The "laws to the colored people" noted by Stanton refer to General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15.
Identifier:
4716835
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.34, p.21B
Barcode:
39999032923391