Published by Adjutant General's Office, War Department, Washington, DC, 1862
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
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.