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(GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR -- E.A. HITCHCOCK) - General Orders, No. 187

Title: General Orders, No. 187
Description: Washington, DC, Adjutant General's Office, War Department, 1862. Handbill. 12mo. Near fine. A superb, bright General Order briefly noting that "Major General E.A. Hitchcock.. is detailed as Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners of War" -- a position he held until the war's end. Signed at the conclusion in type by Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. Accompanied by a Civil War-era 6" X 9" heavy stock steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Hitchcock in uniform. Very good. Mild age toning and bit of faint foxing. .

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Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 38343

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