General Order No. 9
Head Quarters
district of the Border
Kansas City,
Mo., August 18, 1863
I. Lieut. Col. Walter King,
4th Regiment. M.S.M., will, as often as necessary, visit the several military
stations in that part of Missouri included in the District, and ascertain
what negroes are there who desire escort out of Missouri, and were the
slaves of persons who, since the 17th day of July 1862, have been engaged
in the rebellion, or have in any way given aid or comfort thereto. He will
make and certify a list of all such negroes at each of station, and of
the persons by whom the disloyalty of their masters can be shown and will
deliver one copy of each list to the Commander of such stations, and forward
one to the Head-Quarters. Before preparing such list, he will give due
public notice of the time at which he will be aided in such duty at each
station. He will be aided in the discharge of his duties by special instructions
received from or through, these Head-Quarters.
II. Commanders of such stations
will furnish from time to time, as they may be called or by commanders
of escorts, copies of the lists so prepared and filed with them; and will
issue rations, where necessary, to negroes named in each list who are unable
to move from such stations or to earn a living there, until escort can
be furnished them to a place of safety, where they can support themselves.
III. Commanders of companies
and detachments serving in that part of Missouri included in the District,
will give escort and subsistence, where practicable, to all negroes neared
in such certified lists, to Independence, Kansas City, Westport, or the
State of Kansas - sending direct to these Head-Quarters all such negroes
fit for military duty, and willing to enlist.
By order of
Brigadier General Ewing
P.B. Plumb,
Major and Chief of Staff
(The confiscation of any and all property of
persons of southern sympathies, was placed into law by the Federal Government
on July 17, 1862. Since the State of Missouri was under Martial Law, it
was under the control of the Federal Government)
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