Major General Henry W. Halleck, commander of the compulsory Union Department of Missouri, issues General Orders 24 ordering the seizure of the assets of St. Louis secessionists to compensate unionist refugees.
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Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865, (Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 50(n7).
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