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[Nathan George Shelley] Texas Confederate General Orders No. 4. One page, 4.75" x 10.5", March 18, 1862, "Headquarters 26t...
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[Nathan George Shelley] Texas Confederate General Orders No. 4. One page, 4.75" x 10.5", March 18, 1862, "Headquarters 26th Brigade T.[exas] S.[tate] T.[roops]". This general order gives guidelines to commanding officers on what to include in their personnel reports: the names of all soldiers and their companies; the names of those who had been "relieved from the liability of performing military duty"; and the names of those "who have left or removed from their respective precincts". At the end of the document, commanding officers were "earnestly urged to use all possible diligence to obtain correct information". The orders also include details of how soldiers were "to be relieved from the liability of performing military duty": "application must be made to Doctor A. H. Parish, Brigade Surgeon, or to his Assistant Surgeons . . . and certificates of disability obtained." On the verso is contemporaneously written, "Capt John Jones [a Texas Ranger]/ Enrolling Officer,/ Beat No. 9/ Webberville, Texas". The writing has bled-through. A few ink burns exist on the front of the document. Toned and near very good.Before the Civil War, Nathan G. Shelley (1825-1898) was an Austin lawyer and a Texas state senator. At the start of the Civil War, he was elected attorney general. When his term was over, he served in the Confederate Army as a brigadier general of Texas State Troops.
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2009 November Signature Texana Auction #6028 (go to Auction Home page)
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