GENERAL ORDERS No
General Orders No. 19.
HDQRS. 1ST DIV., U.S. COLORED TROOPS,
Near Blakely, Ala., April 14, 1865.
The 30-pounder Parrott battery located on the right of Col. Charles W. Drew's line is hereby designated Battery Wilson, in honor of Capt. S. R. Wilson, Seventy-sixth U.S. Colored Infantry, under whose superintendence it was constructed.
By order of Brig. Gen. J.P. Hawkins:
SAML. B. FERGUSON,
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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