Author: (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR -- JOSEPH HOOKER)
Title: General Orders, No. 263
Description: Washington, DC, Adjutant General's Office, War Department, 1864. Handbill. 12mo. Near fine. File holes at left margin, not affecting text. A bright and lovely General Order informing that "By direction of the President of the United States, Major General Joseph Hooker is assigned to the command of the Northern Department. He will immediately proceed to Columbus, Ohio, and relieve Major General Heintzelman.." Also notes, of course, Heintzelman's new marching orders. Signed at the conclusion in type by Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. Accompanied by a Civil War-era 4 3/4" X 7¼" heavy stock steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Hooker in uniform. Fine. .

Keywords: Civil War Ephemera


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