2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/6/2021
Confederate Broadside, 7"x6-¼", Head Quarters Army of the Potomac, July 4, 1863, and reads in most part: "GENERAL ORDERS No. 68...THE Commanding General, in behalf of the country, thanks the Army of the Potomac for the glorious result of the recent operations. An enemy superior in numbers and flushed with pride of a successful invasion, attempted to overcome and destroy this Army. Utterly baffled and defeated, he has now withdrawn from the contest. The privations and fatigue the Army has endured, and the heroic courage and gallantry it has displayed will be matters of history to be ever remembered. Our task is not yet accomplished, and the Commanding General looks to the Army for greater efforts to drive from our soil every vestige of the presence of the invader. It is right and proper that we should, on all suitable occasions, return our grateful thanks to the Almighty Disposer of events, that in the goodness of his Providence He has thought fit to give victory to the cause of the just. By command of MAJ. GEN. MEADE...S. Williams, Asst. Adj. General." Very good condition. Ex. Barrett Collection.
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