GENERAL ORDERS NO. 60—MAJOR GEN BUTLER / DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF / DEATH PENALTY WARNING

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Dated “New Orleans, August 16th, 1862.” One page, 5” x 8. VG condition.

In this order Gen. Butler directs that money be paid for information leading to the capture of weapons not held under a written permit from United State authorities. The sums as follows:

muskets or/ rifles, $10—Revolvers, 7—Pistols, 5—Saber or Officer’s sword, 5—Dirk, Dagger, Bowie-Knife, or Sword Cane, 3.


Said arms to be confiscated, and the keeper so concealing to be punished by imprisonment. Slaves providing said information shall be emancipated. As the United States authorities will have the inhabitants of the Parish of New Orleans….There after the offenses by robbery by violence or aggravated assault that ought to be repelled by the use of deadly weapons, burglaries, rapes and murders, whether committed by blacks or whites, will be, on conviction, punished by death / Major-General Butler.”

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