Letter from M. R. Clark to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 28, 1863

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Letter from M. R. Clark to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 28, 1863

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People

Clark, M. R.Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

Events

Legislation. Confederate States of America. Congress Legislation. Confederate States of America. Congress. Twenty Negro Law (1862)

Military Units

Confederate States of America. Army

Organizations

Confederate States of America--Army Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office Confederate States of America--Bureau of Conscription Confederate States of America--Congress Plantations

Occupations

Plantation Overseers Planter

Places

Mississippi--Clarke County. Enterprise Mississippi--Hinds County. Jackson

Social Identifiers

African Americans African Americans--Enslaved People Enslavers Impoverished People

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Hd Quarters Office of Conscription
Enterprise Miss June 28^th,, 1863

Hon John J, Pettus
Jackson Miss

Sir

By a recent act of congress approved May 1^st 1863 (a copy of which, with instructions from the Department [?]) relative to Owners and Overseers of plantations on which there are more than twenty negroes. I wish you to give me the necessary information under the instructions, As to what parts of the State and what classes, who will claim a temporary detail, will be the proper sections and persons to grant the provisions of the instructions referred to: Many portions of the State the Slave populations far exceeds the white and more particularly now as a large proportion of our white popu-lation are in the Army. Most of planters I understand are raising provisions the surplus of which will be used for the army and the support of the indigent population of the Country, Your opportunities for obtaining a correct knowledge of the facts being superior to my own. I ask from you an Early reply before I publish a notice for all such persons as come under the provisions of the law to report to these Head Quarters

I am very Respectfully
Your Obt Svt

M. R. Clark, Maj & A. A. G.
Com'dr Con: State of Miss

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Maj M R Clark
28 June 1863
Answd 2 July 1863