HEADQUARTERS HOOKER'S
DIVISION,
Camp Baker, Lower
Potomac, March 26, 1862.
TO BRIGADE AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS OF THIS DIVISION:
Messrs. Nally, Gray, Dummington, Dent, Adams, Speake, Price,
Posey and Cobey, citizens of Maryland, have negroes supposed to be with some of
the regiments of this division. The brigadier-general commanding directs that
they be permitted to visit all the camps of his command in search of their
property and if found that they be allowed to take possession of the same
without any interference whatever. Should any obstacle be
thrown in their way by any officer or soldier in the division they will be at
once reported by the regimental commanders to these headquarters.
By command of
Brigadier-General Hooker:
JOSEPH DICKINSON,
Assistant
Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series II, Volume
1 (Serial No. 114), p. 813-4
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