From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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Broadside, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Original folds, minor edge wear, short repaired marginal tear. Very good. An interesting special order from New Orleans in early 1866, granting leave for Brevet- Major H. Lawrence Sheldon after he accompanies General Winfield Scott to New York City. The order is issued by Major- General E.R.S. Canby and signed by his Acting Assistant Adjutant General Nathaniel Burbank. After resigning from the armed services, Burbank stayed in New Orleans and found a career as a journalist, theater critic, and editor, writing over 3,000 articles as a newsman. He served as the managing editor of the New Orleans PICAYUNE until he suffered a heart attack on a streetcar while on his way to work in 1901. Besides bearing Burbank's signature, the order is notable for the annotations written around the printed text of the order. One note records that mileage was paid to Sheldon upon his arrival in New York, after the eleven day-journey fron New Orleans. Another notation seems to indicate additional pay for Sheldon on April 16. And yet another note reads that Sheldon's leave commenced on April 19. Altogether an absorbing piece of American militaria documenting a soldier's journey from New Orleans to New York just after the Civil War, signed by the man who subsequently managed the New Orleans newspaper of record for the next thirty-plus years. Exceedingly rare, with no copies in OCLC. Seller Inventory # WRCAM52776
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Title: SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 71. HEADQUARTERS, ...
Publisher: [New Orleans
Publication Date: 1866
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