1056 Series I Volume XXV-I Serial 39 - Chancellorsville Part I
| Page 1056 | N.VA.,W.VA.,MD.,AND PA. Chapter XXXVII. |
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 93. Richmond, Va., November 22, 1862.I. The following acts of Congress, having been approved by the President, are published for the information of the Army:
* * * * *
No. 27.-AN ACT to authorize the grant of medals and badges of distinction as a reward for courage and good conduct on the field of battle.The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to bestow medals, with proper devices, upon such officers of the armies of the Confederate States as shall be conspicuous for courage and good conduct on the field of battle; and also to confer a badge of distinction upon one private or non-commissioned officer of each company after every signal victory it shall have assisted to achieve. The non-commissioned officers and privates of the company who may be present on the first dress parade thereafter may choose, by a majority of their votes, the soldier best entitled to receive such distinction, whose name shall be communicated to the President by commanding officers of the company; and if the award fall upon a deceased soldier, the badge thus awarded him shall be delivered to his widow; or, if there be no widow, to any relative the President may adjudge entitled to receive it.
Approved October 13, 1862.
* * * * *
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 64. Richmond, August 10, 1864.I. The following Roll of Honor is published in accordance with Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 131, 1863.
It will be read to every regiment in the service at the first dress parade after its receipt.
* * * * *
BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE.
Alabama.
Eighth Regiment of Infantry:
Private Allen Bolling, Company A.
Private J. N. Howard, Company B.
Sergt. Robert Gaddes, Company C.
Sergt. P. H. Mays, Company F.
Private Patrick Leary, Company I.
Private James Reynolds,* Company K.
* * * * *
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
---------------
*Killed in action.
---------------
| Page 1056 | N.VA.,W.VA.,MD.,AND PA. Chapter XXXVII. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments