Records, 1867 Apr. 1-Dec. 31.

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Records, 1867 Apr. 1-Dec. 31.

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Various printed general orders and circulars issued from "Headquarters, Charleston," dealing with military and civilian affairs during Reconstruction in South Carolina. "General Orders" and "Circulars" issued by Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles and Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby for North and South Carolina re: military rules and civil matters controlled by martial law, including local elections, registration for the constitutional convention, disfranchisement, food shortages, measures to relieve destitution, and roads and bridges. Other topics addressed include offenses by and against African-American freedmen, tax regulations, a reply to the "remonstrance of the Board of Trade of Charleston... made in relation to the authority of the Commanding Officers of Military Districts," court martial proceedings, and an index published in Charleston.

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Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914

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In 1819, Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician. (His year of birth is sometimes given as 1825, and Sickles was known to have claimed as such. Historians speculate that Sickles chose to appear younger when he married a woman half his age.) He learned the printer's trade and studied at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). He studied law in the office of Benjamin Butler, was admitted to the ba...

Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, 1817-1873

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Canby was born in Piatt's Landing, Kentucky, to Israel T. and Elizabeth (Piatt) Canby. He attended Wabash College, but transferred to the United States Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1839. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Infantry and served as the regimental adjutant. Although often referred to as Edward Canby, a biographer has suggested that he was known as "Richard" during childhood and to some friends for most of his life. He was called "Sprigg" by fel...

United States. Army. Military District, 2nd

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