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...  

52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Clothing Account

10 x 15, imprinted form, filled out in ink.

The United States In Account with Michael Doyle of H Company, Fifty-Second Regiment of Penna. Volunteers on account of Clothing during his enlistment; the money value of each issue being hereby acknowledged. Enlisted at Scranton, Pa. on the fourth day of April 1864. Includes information for Date of Issue, Money Value, Rank of Private, Signature of Soldier, and Signature of Witness. Settled to date of discharge July 12, 1865. Signed multiple times by Private Michael Doyle with his X mark, Charles C....  

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

4 x 6 5/8, imprint.

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...  

Death Sentence in Murder Case is Found Illegal

President Lincoln orders the release of a prisoner who was sentenced to death

4 x 6 5/8, imprint.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, August 1, 1861

General Orders,
No. 257

The sentence of death in the case of John W. Sailor, tried on the charge of murder before a Military Commission, which convened at Winchester, Virginia, February 6, 1863, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 17, dated Headquarters, Milroy's Division, Winchester, Virginia, February 5, 1863, is inoperative, on account of...  

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  

Union Officer is Reprimanded for Sending Letter to Congress

4 1/4 x 6 1/2 imprint.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, October 4, 1862

General Orders,
No. 151

I..Captain George H. Johnston, Assistant Adjutant General, having sent a letter to a member of Congress censuring his superior officers, and enclosing a copy of an official report of a confidential character, in relation to the defence of his post, and asking that his communication be brought to the notice of the Secretary of War, thus doubly violating the Army Regulations and General Orders, is hereby...  

Court Martial of General Joseph W. Revere

Grandson of the famous Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere

Court-martialed for his actions at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia

2 pages, 4 1/4 x 6 1/2, imprint.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, August 11, 1863

General Orders,
No.282

I..Before a General Court Martial, which convened at the Headquarters, 3d Corps, May 13, 1863, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 128, dated Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, camp near Falmouth, Virginia, May 12, 1863, and of which Major General W.S....  

1863 Order, Provost Marshal General's Office

Outlining the procedures for the 1863 military draft

4 1/2 x 7 3/4, imprint, signed in ink by Henry Stone, A.A.G.

War Department
Provost Marshal General's Office
Washington, D.C., June 25, 1863

To Lt. Col. Robt. C. Buchanan, 4th Inf.
Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General
Trenton, N.J.

Sir:

I am directed by the Provost Marshal General to instruct you to see that each of the Provost Marshals under your supervision, makes all the necessary preliminary arrangements to effect a draft as soon as one may...  

1864 Army of the James, U.S. Military Telegram

5 1/4 x 8, imprinted form filled out in ink.

United States Military Telegraph

By Telegraph from Hd. Qrs. A.[rmy] of Ja[me]s

Dated Jan. 9, 1864

To Lieut. Trent

Please send by telegraph a report of operations on your line for last week. I merely want a general idea of what has been done.

W.R. King
Lt. & Acting Chf. Engr.

Light age toning and wear. Very fine. Nice content.

William R. King, graduated 5th in the West Point class of 1859. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant of engineers on June 11, 1863;...