Posted on Jul 30, 2018

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On July 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issues the "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot and for every black soldier sold into slavery, one Southern troop would be sentenced to life at hard labor.

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SP5 Mark Kuzinski

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Thanks that is a new one to me.

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Read the General Order No. 252, 7/31/1863. Lincoln actually found it difficult to follow through on many of these.

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