General Orders 263 (1 results)
Published by Adjutant General's Office, War Department, Washington, DC 1864
- Manuscript
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHandbill. 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 Genera…l 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.
