Author: (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR)
Title: General Orders, No. 9
Description: Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1863 January 9. Handbill. 16mo (4 3/4" X 7"). Very good. Binding traces along left edge; bit of age toning. This briefest of General Orders make major announcements: "By direction of the President, the Army of the Cumberland, under command of Major General Rosecrans, is divided into three Army Corps.. Major General G.H. Thomas is assigned to the command of the Fourteenth Corps; Major General A. McD. McCook, to the command of the Twentieth; and Major General T.L. Crittenden, to the command of the Twenty first Corps.." Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and attractive. .

Keywords: Civil War Ephemera


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