2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/8/2023
Funeral Single sheet General Order with mourning rules, file holes in the left margin, VG. "Head-Quarters, . Twenty-fourth Army Corps, General Orders No. 46, Burkeville, Va., April 20, 1865. In full, "In memory of our late Chief Magistrate the colors of the different commands of this corps will be placed in morning, which will be worn until further orders, The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary crape. By command of Major General John Gibbon" and ink signed "Edward Moal", Assistant Adjutant General. ... plus, Single sheet General Order with mourning rules, file holes in the left margin, VG. General Order No. 69, Washington, April 17, 1865. "By order of the President of the United States, the War Department will be closed on Wednesday next, the day of the funeral of the late president of the United States. ... The flags will be kept at half-staff ... at 12 o'clock .. twenty one minute guns will be fired from all forts ..." $200-$300
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