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"COLORED TROOPS PROPERLY DISCIPLINED AND COMMANDED, CAN AND WILL FIGHT WELL" (MILITARY.) Hurlbut, Major General S. A. 16th Army Corps General
"COLORED TROOPS PROPERLY DISCIPLINED AND COMMANDED, CAN AND WILL FIGHT WELL" (MILITARY.) Hurlbut, Major General S. A. 16th Army Corps General Orders, Numbers 45, 173, and 178. Together, 3 pieces, each one page, 8vo; one Signed by Charles Townsend as Acting Assistant Adjutant General; neatly matted together and framed. Memphis, 1863
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Notes: first and only printings. First order of 15 April calls for the formation of 8 companies of colored men, with white commissioned officers, and Black non-commissioned officers. Second order of 17 December compliments the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment, West Tennessee Infantry for their valor at the defense of Moscow, Tennessee, "... for the manner in which they have vindicated the wisdom of the government in elevating the rank and file of those regiments to the position of freedmen and soldiers." Third order of 22 December is for mustering out for pay those same troops.
Each order relates to the early participation of colored soldiers in battle. The first order precedes the War Department's General Orders No. 143 establishing the Bureau of Colored Troops (22 May 1863).
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