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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bedford County (Va.) Slave Records #5349, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased June 2007 from Historical Collectible Auctions (Acc. 100717).

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• African Americans--Confederate States of America.
• Bedford County (Va.)--History.
• Confederate States of America. Army--African Americans.
• Impressment--Confederate States of America.
• Slaveholders--Virginia.
• Slavery--Virginia.
• Slaves--Employment--Confederate States of America.
• Slaves--Virginia.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Manpower.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

During the Civil War, many Confederate states, including Virginia, required slaveholders to contribute slaves to serve in the Confederate Army.

This collection consists of three 1863 documents relating to Bedford County, Va., slaveholders contributing slaves for impressment into in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The documents include an order to the county sheriff to summon to court slaveholders who failed to deliver the required number of slaves; a list of those to be summoned to court; and a list of slaveholders with the number of slaves owned, number of slaves hired out, and where those slaves were located.