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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
rmal orders declared it to be their duty and purpose to suppress and crush out servile insurrections. Some were reported to have offered to return fugitive slaves to their masters. Halleck's order excluding fugitive slaves from the lines of his army came later,—Nov. 20, 1801. The reason given in the order for the exclusion was that they carried information to the enemy; whereas, instead of doing so, they brought information to our government. The President expressed to the writer, Feb. 15, 1812, much impatience at the hesitation of the Senate to confirm Halleck's nomination as major-general on account of this order. As to the military orders and other official action concerning fugitive slaves at this time, see McPherson's History of the Rebellion, pp. 234-260. The war department required McDowell to forbid the harboring of fugitive slaves in camps, or their accompanying the troops on a march; this was at the President's instance, though the fact of his interposition was at hi