"That every slave and free negro who shall after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, slay, by any means, an officer, sailor, or soldier of the Lincolnite Army or Navy, upon satisfactory proof thereof, shall be entitled to a bounty of twenty dollars and an annuity of twenty dollars for life."
From the Journal of the House of Representatives of the First Congress of the Confederate States of America. Second Secession.
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David Upton