Civil-war Gen Townsend General Order Dept Arkansas Relieving Gen Steele #19

GEN EDWARD TOWNSEND WORKED CLOSELY WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND SEC OF WAR STATON. SIGNED GENERAL ORDER BY ED TOWNSEND. RELIEVING GEN GEN F STEELE DEPT OF ARKANSAS 7th CORP AND ASSIGNED GEN W REYONLDS A VETERAN WHO FOUGHT LEE WAS AT CHICKAMAUGA AND LATER FOUGHT SIOUX AT POWDER RIVER. GEN TOWNSEND WAS PRINCIPLE EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT WAR DEPT. EARLIER HE HAD SIGNED GENERAL ORDER 182. RELIEVING MCCELLAN OF COMMAND IN 1862. Also, once an item is brought I will no alter any information on any form. All items will have a confirmation number. Feedback will not be sent until I receive feedback. Please feel free to read my feedback. I'm very proud of my feedback. If you choose to wear or actually use items, it is at you own risk. General & Special Orders were issued to communicate commands and information to the Army. Each order, issued in writing by a command, was then printed for distribution to each unit, either at an army department headquarter or by commanders at local headquarters, sometimes in the field on portable printing presses.

The orders were then issued to regiments, often to be read aloud to the troops. General Orders were printed as issued with date & location; at the end of a year the regimental adjutant might retain them loose or simply string bind them by punching holes or cut slits in the left margin and stringing on.

Red cloth string tape (the source of the old expression "government red tape"). Sometimes an officer or HQ clerk might take a group of orders to a local print shop or bookbinder and have an accumulation bound with leather or cloth covers. Usually, American Military Orders of the 19. Century including Civil War era were printed on an 8 x 5? Sheet of quality rag paper.

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