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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Rappahannock lines. (search)
to the orders of their officers, and by their in the discharge of the various duties of cause, that they deserve to be free; and the Colonel commanding hopes that their conduct hereafter will justify the exercise of the authority which has made them free men. By order of James D. Fessenden, Colonel Commanding. Lieut. Luther G. Riggs Adjutant. The following is a copy of one of the "free papers" issued to the soldiers of this command, and applicable of the one given Sergeant Prince Rivers, the right general guide of the regiment — a negro of sturdy bearing, and combining a remarkable intellect with a very tolerable education: Hdq'rs Dep't of the South, Pon Royal, S. G., Aug. 1. The bearer, Prince Rivers, a Sergeant in 1st regiment South Carolina Volunteers late claimed as a slave, having been employed in hostility to the United States, is hereby, agreeably to the law of the 6th of August, 1861, declared free forever. His wife and children are also free. D