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President's war order, no. 3. March 11, 1862

by: United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)

Publication date: 1862

Topics: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885, Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872, Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890, United States. Army, Military Personnel, Personnel Management, American Civil War, United States

Publisher: [Washington? : s.n.]

Collection: usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicineintheamericas; medicalheritagelibrary; americana

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: English

1 sheet ; 18 x 12 cm

Order appoints Major General McClellan as head of the Army of the Potomac and announces formation of the Department of the Mississippi under command of Major General Halleck and the Mountain Department under the command of Major General Frémont; with directives that all report to the Secretary of War

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At head of text at right of title: Executive Mansion, Washington, March 11, 1862

Type-signed at end of order: Abraham Lincoln; followed by printed text: By order of the Secretary of War: L. Thomas, Adjutant General ..

NLM copy, bound twenty-fifth in a volume that contains 210 general orders issued by the United States War Department, an index to the general orders, and 5 orders issued by the President

Condition reviewed 20160429

digitized. 2019