Confederate Army - Western Department - First Division papers, undated.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Western Dept. Division, 1st. Confederate Army - Western Department - First Division papers, undated.

Confederate Army - Western Department - First Division papers, undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46910798

Contains the following types of materials: general and special orders orderly book. Contains information pertaining to the following war and time period: Civil War -- Western Theater. Contains information pertaining to the following military unit and organization: 1st Division; Western Department. General description of the collection: The Confederate Army Western Department, First Division papers include an photocopies of an album of various general and special orders issued at the headquarters, Major General Leonidas Polk commanding, September 14, 1861-Febrary 3, 1862. Endorsements suggest that many of these orders were sent to elements of the Third Divison of Polk's command, Brigadier General John P. McCown commanding: especially to its First Brigade and to Bankhead's Light Artillery Battalion. McCown apparently brought this volume with him from Columbus, Kentucky to New Madrid, Missouri in 1862. There it was picked up by Wisconsin troops of the Army of the Mississippi and was turned over to the federal government by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, November 21, 1906. Sometime while it was in Madison, someone posted in it a newspaper clipping dealing with the murder or former Confederate acting Brigadier General Smith P. Bankhead, April 27, 1867.

1 folder.

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