Orders for the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, stationed at Lomita.
Manuscript orders to the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, who were stationed at Lomita, near Brownsville and Matamoros on the Rio Grande at the outset of the Mexican-American War. The present orders, dated August 2, 1846, pertain to rules of behavior in camp. The First Tennessee Volunteers we...
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Manuscript orders to the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, who were stationed at Lomita, near Brownsville and Matamoros on the Rio Grande at the outset of the Mexican-American War. The present orders, dated August 2, 1846, pertain to rules of behavior in camp. The First Tennessee Volunteers were sent to the mouth of the Rio Grande from New Orleans in the summer of 1846 after war was declared, and were encamped near Brownsville awaiting orders to march on Monterrey when these instructions were issued. |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by bookseller. Signed by A. Heiman as Adj[u]t[ant], and the affixed signature of the Col. Commanding W.B. Campbell, who later became the state's governor 1851-1853. |
| Physical Description: | 1 leaf ; 26 cm |