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<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[ANTEBELLUM GENERAL ORDERS] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Handsomely bound collection of over 100 General Orders from “Headquarters of the Army, New York” and “War Department, Washington” sent to Santa Fe, 1853-58. Many are signed as AAG by future Civil War generals </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Irwin McDowell</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1818-1885), Union Commander at First Manassas; </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>Lorenzo Thomas </span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>(1804-1875), Union general who organized colored troops in southern states; and </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Samuel Cooper</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1798-1876) who became the highest ranking General of the Confederacy. Receipt dockets and other annotations present. Excellent military content concerns Western troop movement and the expedition against the Mormons, courts martial, and promotional and organizational lists including Civil War Generals <b>Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnson, J.E.B. Stuart, George B. McClellan</b>, and <b>George Pickett</b>. Plus detailed descriptions of “<i>combats with hostile Indians</i>”; ordnance and equipment related orders for cavalry; “Manuel for Colt’s Revolver” and arms specifications for the 1st and 2nd cavalry. Other order’s stipulate details of uniforms. Courts martial related orders provide much colorful detail regarding the trials of Colonel <b>E. V. Sumner</b>, Major <b>Daniel E. Twiggs</b>, and Private <b>John McCann</b>, who was condemned to be shot by a panel presided over by Brevet Colonel <b>Robert E. Lee</b>. This exceptional collection offers a vivid, comprehensive, in-depth look at antebellum US Army operations. Marble board and leather binding with gilt lettering, inscribed on second fly leaf Mar 10, 1883 from <b>Major Fred Kacher</b>, 32nd NY, to Major James Malambree. Overall Fine.</span></p>
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