Pair of Kentucky Colonels are Dishonorably Mustered Out of the Army

5 x 8, imprint.

Headquarters, Department of the South,
Hilton Head, S.C., February 4, 1865

General Orders,
No. 13

The following paragraph, from Special Orders No. 39, Adjutant General's Office, January 25th, 1865, is re-published for the information of this Command:

Special Orders,
No. 39.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, Jan. 25, 1865

Colonel Edward A. Starling, 35th Kentucky Volunteers, and Lieutenant Colonel Edward R. Wier, Jr., 35th Kentucky...  

The Territories of Colorado & Nebraska are Included in the Department of the Missouri

4 1/2 x 7, authentic imprint.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, October 11, 1862

General Orders
No. 155

The Territories of Colorado and Nebraska are included in the Department of the Missouri.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
L. THOMAS
Adjutant General

Scattered wear and edge chipping.  

Oath of Allegiance for Confederate Surgeon, 5th Alabama Cavalry

I will faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States....support all laws and proclamations made during the existing rebellion, with reference to the emancipation of slaves

7 1/2 x 4 1/2, imprinted form, filled out in ink.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I, R.T. Abernathy, of the County of Franklin, State of Alabama, do solemnly swear or affirm, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Union of States...  

Autograph, General Darius N. Couch

War Date Document Signed

Report of the shooting death of a negro servant while General Couch's troops were guarding the property of a Virginian!

(1822-97) Born on a farm in Putnam County, New York, he graduated in the West Point class of 1846, along with George B. McClellan, Stonewall Jackson, and 46 other graduates who fought in the Civil War including 19 who became full generals for either the Union or Confederate armies. Couch fought in the Mexican War and was brevetted to 1st lieutenant for gallantry at the Battle of Buena Vista....  

1862 General Ben Butler Order, Ship Island, Department of the Gulf

5 x 8, imprint.

Headquarters Department of the Gulf
Ship Island, [Mississippi], March 24, 1862

General Orders No. 4

A Board of Officers, consisting of

1. Col. O.P. Gooding, 31st Mass. Volunteers

2. Lieut. Col. A.B. Farr, 26th Mass. Volunteers

3. Major David R. Hastings, 12th Maine Volunteers

4. Capt. William Roy, 21st Indiana Volunteers

5. First Lieut. John Brennan, 12th Conn. Volunteers

Will assemble at the Headquarters of the 31st Mass. Volunteers, on the 25th inst., or as soon...  

1864 U.S. Army Safeguard Pass

7 1/2 x 9 3/4, imprinted form.

By Authority of ___ a safeguard is hereby granted to ___

All officers and soldiers belonging to the Army of the United States are therefore commanded to respect this safeguard, and to afford, if necessary, protection to ___

Given at Headquarters, the ___ day of ___ 1864.

By command of the General,

Asst. Adjt. General

"55th Article of the Rule and Articles of War"

"Whoever belonging to the Armies of the United States in foreign parts, or at any place within...  

Change of Stations for Quartermasters, Commissaries & Paymasters

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War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, August 1, 1863

GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 258

All applications of quartermasters, commissaries, and paymasters, for changes of stations, or to be exempted from the operation of orders of assignment to stations, on the score of ill health, will be hereafter taken as confessions of inability to perform official duty on account of physical incapacity, and equivalent to tenders of resignations. The officers concerned will, in ordinary course, be mustered out of...  

1862 Imprint, Mayor's Office, City of Boston

7 3/4 x 9 3/4, imprinted blank form, with vignette of the Boston City seal with 1636 date and motto at the upper left. Mayor's Office, City Hall, Boston, 1862. Frederic W. Tracy, City Treasurer. Sir: Pay to ____ of BOSTON, a recruit accepted and mustered into the service of the United States by ____ for the ____ Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS bounty, as per order of the City Council, passed July 14, 1862, he being a part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the City of Boston, for three years, unless sooner...  

Order Regarding Veterinary Surgeons of Cavalry

4 x 6 3/4, imprint.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, August 1, 1863

General Orders,
No. 259

Veterinary Surgeons of Cavalry, under the act of March 3, 1863, will be selected by the Chief of the Cavalry Bureau, upon the nomination of the regimental commanders. These nominations will be founded upon the recommendation of the candidate by a regimental board of officers, to consist of the three officers present next in rank to the commander of the regiment. The names of candidates so recommended and...  

1863 Order Announcing the Department of West Virginia

4 x 6 3/4, imprint.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, August 3, 1863

General Orders,
No. 266

The Department of West Virginia will include all of the State of Maryland west of the Monocacy river, including that part of Virginia in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E.D. TOWNSEND
Assistant Adjutant General  

President Lincoln Directs Retirement of Union Officers

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War Department
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, August 1, 1863

General Orders
No. 254

By direction of the President of the United States, the following officers are retired from active service at their own request, and their names will be entered on the retired list of officers of the grade to which they now respectively belong, in accordance with section 15, act approved August 3, 1861; this order to take effect from this date:

Colonel Hannibal Day, 6th Infantry

Lieutenant Colonel...  

The Hdqtrs. of Commissary General of Prisoners is Transferred

4 1/4 x 7, imprint.

War Department
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, October 7, 1862

General Orders
No. 153

The Headquarters of Colonel William Hoffman, 3d Infantry, Commissary General of Prisoners, is transferred from Detroit, (Mich.) to Washington, D.C.

By Order Of The Secretary Of War:

L. THOMAS
Adjutant General

Light age toning and wear. The upper left corner of the paper is very slightly clipped.


Colonel William Hoffman
Commissary General of Prisoners

(1807-84) Born in...