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THBRare Civil War Broadside, Federal Forces Occupy Nashville and Issue Orders to Suppress Guerrilla Activities and Other Violenc
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Printed broadside, 5 x 15 in., intended for wide circulation and posting in public places warning both US military forces and the civilian population that certain actions are to be taken as treasonous and prohibiting anti-US activities. With headline, General Orders No. 34/ Headquarters District of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn. July 15, 1864, issued, By command of Maj. Gen. Milroy: B.H. Polk, Major and Ass't. General, and secondary issuance at bottom in fancier multi-style print, Headquarters US Forces, Clarksville, Tenn., July 25, 1864. The above order will be strictly enforced within the jurisdiction of the Posts of Clarksville and Fort Donelson, A.A. Smith, Col. 83d Ills. Vol. Inf't. Commanding.
The broadside commences: To the end that treason with its attendants of Guerillaism [sic], bushwacking and lawless violence of all kinds may be speedily and effectually suppressed and the supremacy of the Government restored in law and order in this district it is ordered. Then follows six separate orders for various actions to be taken by every commanding US officer...will cause immediate pursuit of any...lawless persons as may be seen or heard in his vicinity, the pursuit to be continued to extermination if possible...all persons harboring, aiding or abetting...to be treated in like manner...all houses/ buildings harboring and involuntarily feeding such lawless persons...to be burned...all citizens required to give immediate information to nearest officer of US of such lawless persons...highest duty of every citizen to be loyal and to yield every possible assistance to restoration of law and order...not [merely] by oaths and empty professions of loyalty but, by substantial acts...the day for passive lip-loyalty has gone...to be considered genuine loyalty, citizen must prove himself by works...disloyal and disaffected will be held responsible...and...in each neighborhood [will] remunerate loyal citizens against losses in the hands of guerillas [sic]...
Issued just after the occupation, this was the prelude to the Nashville campaign in mid-December, 1864. Milroy's earlier suppression of guerrillas in the mountain district was so vigorous that the Confederates had put a price on his head.
This very rare, significant broadside truly embodies the enmities created as well as the dread and terror generated during the Civil War under an occupying force.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.Aging, but sound. One darker brown spot in center where once folded and some tattering, only on the extreme edges of the right side (mostly) blank edge and two small chips out of the edge of the top blank margin; all intact.Condition
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