Give instruction
that no passes are to be given to negroes to accompany their masters in leaving
the city. The negroes may be informed that they are free by any one who may
choose to give the information, and, if they still wish to go, no force need be
used to prevent. In the particular case where I gave the reply that force would
not be used to prevent negroes accompanying their masters, the officer said he
had a family and children, and could not get along without a nurse; further,
that the nurse had been raised in the family and was like one of them, and
would take as hard to be separated as would an actual member of the family.
If there is any
indication that a suspicious number of blacks are going to accompany the troops
out, then all should be turned back except such as are voluntarily accompanying
families, not more than one to each family.
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