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to Lorenzo Thomas

Badeau, captain and aide-de-camp, writes to Thomas, United States Adjutant General. Writes, "I have the honor to report my continued presence in Washington City, awaiting orders for the field, with Brig Gen T. W. Sherman, to whom I was reassigned by...

GLC05022

[Expense account and general order no. 201]

First two pages consist of a handwritten list of Eben Whittemore's expenses in service to the United States. Pages three and four are a printed copy of United States "General Orders No. 201" from Washington D.C.. The two documents are glued...

GLC02175.16

[General orders no. 99 concerning the establishment of an artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia]

Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General of the United States Army, details the procedure for the establishment of an artillery school. Includes instructions pertaining to organization, duties of the staff, instruction, examination, and other details....

GLC02382.215

[List of orders pertaining to an artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia]

List of special orders issued between 1869 and 1873 regarding the establishment of an artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Mentions General Ulysses S. Grant, President Andrew Johnson, General Gibbon (possibly John Gibbon), and Edward Davis...

GLC02382.232

[General orders no. 30 regarding food rations for contrabands]

Signed by Townsend, United States Assistant Adjutant General. By order of the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, establishes food rations "for issue by the Subsistence Department to adult refugees and to adult colored persons, commonly called...

GLC02225