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CIVIL WAR]. [CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS]. [BLACK TROOPS AND THE P.O.W. PROBLEM]. Ten printed documents, 1861-1865. Together 36 pages, 8vo, paper wrappers, all with "Rebel Archives" stamp . Parrish & Willingham (P&W) numbers indicated below. An Act Relative to Prisoners of War, 21 May 1861 (P&W59); An Act to Perpetuate Testimony in cases of slaves abducted or harbored by the enemy...30 Aug. 1861 (P&W65); Resolutions endorsing the recent proclamation and order of the President on the subject of retaliation, 13 January 1863 (P&W528); Joint Resolutions in reference to the treatment of colored troops, 15 Feb. 1864 (P&W674); A Bill to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities, 5 Jan. 1864 (P&W628); An Act to amend an Act to increase the efficiency of the army by employing free negroes and slaves in certain capacities, 22 Nov. 1864 (P&W379); Amendment to Senate Bill 129 to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications...12 Dec. 1864 (P&W394); A Bill to increase the military force of the Confederate States, 10 Feb. 1865 (P&W810); Amendment to the Negro Soldier Bill, 14 Feb. 1865 (P&W811); Report of the Joint Select Committee to investigate the Condition and Treatment of prisoners of War, 3 March 1865 (P&W257). BLACK TROOPS AND SOUTHERN RETALIATION. The problem of prisoner exchange and Southern treatment of captured black soldiers was among the most bitter and deadly differences between North and South. The House Resolution of 13 January 1863, declares Union General Ben Butler "a felon, deserving of capital punishment," and empowers anyone to summarily kill him on sight. In answer to the Lincoln administration's refusal to extradite a Union officer for murdering 10 Southern civilians, one resolution here urges that the next ten Union officers taken prisoner "be immediately executed without regard to rank." Together 10 items . (10)