Letter
Unknown to A. J. McNeill, September 9, 1863
HEADQUARTERS TRANS- MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, La., September 9, 1863.
Col. A. J. MCNEILL, Commanding, dc., Vienna:
COLONEL: It having been reported that there are a number of deserters and men liable to conscription collected in Union Parish for the purpose of resisting the Confederate authorities, the lieutenantgeneral commanding directs that you quietly make arrangements to temporarily send a sufficient force from your command to break up these organizations and arrest the offenders.
The lieutenant-general also directs that copies of the order of amnesty, allowing till the 15th proximo for all deserters to return to their commands, be immediately sent to that parish.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN G. MEEM, Jr.,
Aide-de-Camp.
Aide-de-Camp.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in West Florida, Southern Alabama, Southern Mississippi, Louisiana, 1862–63, Pt. 1. Location: Shreveport, La.. Summary: Confederate command instructs Colonel McNeill to suppress deserter resistance in Union Parish and distribute amnesty orders allowing deserters to return by September 15, 1863.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 26, Part 1
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