General Orders: Department of the Tennessee and the Military Division of the Mississippi, 1862 - 1864

Item — Box: 3, item: 001

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

From the Collection:

This collection consists of thirteen boxes of correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and scrapbooks related to Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, their acquaintances, and family members. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence and Ephemera; Photographs, and Scrapbooks. The first two series have additional Sub-Series that break the material down into specific types which are then arranged either chronologically or alphabetically by topic.

Correspondents in this collection include:

Ulysses S. Grant; Julia D. Grant; Frederick Dent Grant; Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.; Jesse Root Grant; William T. Sherman; Philip Sheridan; John Schofield; Orville E. Babcock; B. F. Butler; W. W. Smith; J. M. Schofield; John Rawlins; Horace Porter; William McKinley; Mary Todd Lincoln; Adam Badeau; Rama V / Chulalongkorn

Dates

1862 - 1864

Extent

From the Collection: 6.5 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Note

Bound copies of General orders issued by Grant from 1862 to 1864. Includes both printed and hand-written copies of the GOs, some in USG's hand, other's in the hand of his aides-de-camp. This bound copy includes a hand-written copy of the infamous General Orders No. 11 (Identified as its actual number GO No. 12 in the volume) which Grant issued in December 1862 expelling all Jews from the Department of the Tennessee. The order was quickly rescinded by President Lincoln and General Henry Halleck.