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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Official report of Brig.-Gen. Floyd of the battle of Fort Donelson (search)
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankee Programme in North Carolina . (search)
Proclamation.
By virtue of the power vested in me by law to declare the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in e les threatened with invasion--
I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do proclaim that Martial law is hereby extended over the city of Petersburg and the adjoining and surrounding country to the distance of ten mile, and do proclaim the suspension of all civil jurisdiction, (with the exception of that of the Mayor of the ci pus within the said city and surrounding country to the distance aforesaid.
In faith whereof I have hereunto signed my name and set my seal, on the eighth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two
(Signed,) Jefferson Davis
II, William Pannill is appointed Provost Marshal, and is charged with the due execution of the foregoing Proclamation, and will forthwith establish an efficient military police, and will enforce the following orders:
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