The Organization of the Confederate ‘Legion of Honor’

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Confederate imprint, 2p. octavo, ordered to be printed by the Confedearte House on January 2, 1865, it reads in part: “...officers who shall thus lose their rank, and all other company, battalion, regimental, post or departmental officers, (except prisoners of war,) not assigned to duty, who do not elect to serve in some company thus consolidated or previously established, shall have the privilege, within sixty days of forming themselves into companies, battalions, or regiments, at such time and place as the commander of their respective departments shall direct. The organization thus composed shall be known and designated as the ‘Confederate States Legioni of Honor;’ said Legion of Honor shall be officered by election from its own members, with the approval of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...Said organization to be equipped in the most approved style, and so armed and instructed, as to insure it the greatest military efficiency, and shall serve in separate detachments, or collectively, or in conjunction with other commands subject to the regulations for the government of troops of a like arm, and in such district or department, under such orders and command as the Commander in Chief of the Confederate States armies may direct...” ‘Rebel Archives’ stamp, Fine.

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