JACKSON TENNESSEE CIVIL WAR COURTMARTIAL ORDER GENERAL JEREMIAH SULLIVAN 1863 For Sale

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JACKSON TENNESSEE CIVIL WAR COURTMARTIAL ORDER GENERAL JEREMIAH SULLIVAN 1863:
$125.00

Jackson, Madison County Mississippi on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad was a strategic Civil War railroad center and was raided by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Dec, 1862, but the 12th Michigan Volunteers, Shiloh veterans successfully held the key railroad fortification. An original Civil War Special Order, issued March 3, 1863 at HQ, District of Jackson, Jackson, Tennessee by General Jeremiah Sullivan, orders Captain Henry Yates to appear at HQ to answer charges of neglect of duty. The Order is signed in pencil on the reverse by various 12th Michigan men incl Wm H Ford, 1p 8 x 5" ptd, with pencil notations. 2 punch holes on left margin, Age stains, edge wear, back page trimmed, not affecting content. Overall VG. Comes w service info. Captain Yates of the 106th Illinois Volunteers was found not guilty and breveted a brigadier general for his War service.