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

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02382.232 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: circa 1873 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 21.1 cm, Width: 17.4 cm Order a Copy

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 Townsend, who served as Assistant Adjutant General during the Civil War.

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889
Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Gibbon, John, 1827-1896

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