Lest We Forget - African American Military History by Researcher, Author and Veteran Bennie McRae, Jr.

SPECIAL ORDERS No

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 34.

HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,
Vicksburg, Miss., February 7, 1865.

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III. Extract II, Special Orders, No. 33, current series, from these headquarters is amended as follows: Instead of the Second Brigade, First Division, U.S. Colored Troops, and Forty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry, the following-named regiments will proceed to New Orleans under command of Brig. Gen. J.P. Hawkins: Forty-seventh U.S. Colored Infantry, Forty.eighth U.S. Colored Infantry, Fiftieth U.S. Colored Infantry, Fifty-first U.S. Colored Infantry.

By order of Maj. Gen. C. C. Washburn:

 W. H. MORGAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SOURCE: United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.

 

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