General Orders, No. 34, Headquarters 1st Military District

Item sets: The General Orders, No. 34 for the 1st Military District Headquarters; Jones Memorial Library Manuscripts Collection

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Identifier: JML.MS1297
Source Identifier: 346
Title: General Orders, No. 34, Headquarters 1st Military District
Description: Images of printed document known as General Orders No. 34, Headquarters 1st Military District. The document includes three printed pages which give instructions for the governing of Boards of Registration regarding qualifications for voter registration in the First Military District, Richmond, Virginia.

The orders were issued 03 June 1867 following the Civil War during the period known as Reconstruction.
Date: 3 June 1867
Creator: Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906; Chaflin, Samuel Fletcher, 1825-1891
Subject: Voter registration
topic: 1867; Civil Rights; Confederacy; Confederate States of America; disenfranchisement; enfranchisement; General Orders No 34; military orders; MS 1297; MS1297; Reconstruction; Richmond; voter registration; voting; voting rights
Digital Format: image/jpeg
Language: English
Repository: George M. Jones Library Association
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights Holder: George M. Jones Library Association