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General orders. No. 71

by: United States. Adjutant-General's Office, author

Publication date: 1863

Topics: Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose), 1797-1863, United States. Army, Military Personnel, Death, American Civil War, United States

Publisher: [Washington?] : [publisher not identified]

Collection: usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicineintheamericas; medicalheritagelibrary; americana

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: English

1 sheet ; 17 x 11 cm

Announces the death of Major General E.V. Sumner, who fell ill and died on his way to take command of the Department of the Missouri, and directs the ways that Department should give him military honors

Caption title

"War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, March 24, 1863."

Sheet is bordered in black

NLM copy, bound seventy-third in a volume that contains 220 general orders issued by the United States War Department, and an index to them

Condition reviewed 20141024

digitized. 2019