Raynors HCA 2020-02
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A great war-date official Union army military document, 8pp. 8vo., printed General Orders No. 18, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, Jan. 22, 1863, signed and made official, in type, by President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, reading, in small very part: "…in compliance with the…Rules and Articles of War…laid before the President of the United States…the foregoing proceedings, finding, and sentence in the…case of Major General Fitz-John Porter are approved and confirmed…and he hereby is, cashiered and dismissed from the service of the United States as a Major General of Volunteers and Brevet Brigadier General in the Regular Service of the United States, and forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. January 21, 1863…". The above findings follow a lengthy outline of the charges, findings and recommended sentence against Union General Porter for his failing to support General Pope's army during the disastrous Second battle of Bull Run. Left margin punch holes, with light toning, else VG.
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