2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/21/2024
War of 1812 "STATE OF NEW YORK GENERAL ORDERS" signed in type by President James Madison, 3pp. folio, Headquarters, Albany, August 25, 1813, and reads in part: "...In pursuance of a requisition made by authority of the President of the United States, the Commandant of the Seventh Division of Infantry is hereby ordered forthwith to detach, and have in readiness for immediate actual service...Five hundred from the 7th Brigade, Three hundred from the 24th...Three hundred from the 30th....Three hundred from the 38th...Two hundred and fifty from the 1st...The whole detachment will form one Brigade, to the command of which Brigadier General George McClure, of Steuben county, is assigned..." Much more. Pencil scribble on blank page, Fine condition.
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