Skip to main content Skip to search results

SCOUT

Special Collections Online at UT

Showing Collections: 1 - 1 of 1

Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3468
Abstract

Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk wrote this broadside, entitled A Proclamation. To All Soldiers, in This Department Absent from Their Commands Without Leave, from his headquarters in Demopolis, Alabama on April 16, 1864. In it, he offers to pardon soldiers who have deserted if they return to their commands.

Dates: 1864 April 16

Filtered By

  • Subject: Broadsides X
  • Subject: Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. X