Letter
James B. Fry to Thomas, December 22, 1861
Louisville, Ky.
Louisville, Ky., December 22, 1861.
General THOMAS, Commanding First Division, Lebanon:
SIR: Acting Brigadier-General Carter reports that by your orders it is forbidden to receive fugitive slaves into camp, and that occasionally slaves belonging to rebels in East Tennessee make their escape from their owners and apply to him for protection and are employed by officers as servants.
The general directs that exceptions be made in regard to fugitives in Such cases.
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES B. FRY,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff.
Assistant Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, 1861–62. Location: Louisville, Ky.. Summary: James B. Fry informs General Thomas that Brigadier-General Carter enforces a ban on accepting fugitive slaves into camp but allows exceptions for escaped slaves from rebel owners in East Tennessee to serve as officers' servants.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 7
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