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Originally Posted by Dithyrambic  a polar bear and some guy?? | The great great grand nephew of US President Lincoln's Civil War General "Black Dave". He took the independent initiative to issued an historic order before his boss actually thought to do it. Creative thinker, I'd say-- and balls to match. His wealthy plantation owning brother-in-law on the Confederate side wasn't too thrilled. Quote:
The three States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the south, having deliberately declared themselves no longer under the protection of the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the said United States, it becomes a military necessity to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible; the persons in these three States — Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina— heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever free.
– Maj. Gen. David Hunter, Department of the South, General Order No. 11, May 9, 1862
| History tells it a bit differently and gives the President the credit.
Also a white shadow.
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