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[ARMY OF TENNESSEE]

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[ARMY OF TENNESSEE]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[ARMY OF TENNESSEE] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>A “<i>Special Requisition</i>” for the assignment of Private Henry N. Bingham to serve as clerk in the post surgeon’s office at Grenada, MS, is disapproved by the following <b>war-date</b> endorsements boldly penned on bottom portion of factual statement by Capt. T. J. Stanford, Stanford’s Battery, MS Vol: “...<i>Dec. 15, 1862 The man is detailed by the Post Surgeon at Grenada Miss. without proper authority. I would respy ask that he be ordered to send him to his company.</i> </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>Alex. P. Stewart,</span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> <i>Brig. Genl.</i>”; “...</span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>B.F. Cheatham,</span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> <i>Maj. Genl. Comg. 1 Div. Polk Corps”; “...and approved,</i> </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>L. Polk,</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> <i>Lt. Genl Comdg</i>”; and “</span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Braxton Bragg</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>” from Murfreesboro, TN, Dec 19, 1862, just three days prior to that bloody battle. An additional endorsement is made by J.R. Waddy on behalf of Lt. Gen. Pemberton, Dec 27, 1862, advising that Bingham would be ordered to join his command. Light general toning; Bragg’s endorsement on blue paper is laid to panel in sequence above Waddy’s endorsement; o/w VG.</span></p>