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General Orders, No. 187.

(GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR -- E.A. HITCHCOCK).

Washington, DC: Adjutant General's Office, War Department, 15 November 1862. Handbill. 12mo. Near fine. Item #38343

A superb, bright General Order briefly noting that "Major General E.A. Hitchcock... is detailed as Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners of War" -- a position he held until the war's end. Signed at the conclusion in type by Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. Accompanied by a Civil War-era 6" X 9" heavy stock steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Hitchcock in uniform. Very good. Mild age toning and bit of faint foxing.

Price: $75.00