2nd Massachusetts Infantry & 29th Pennsylvania Infantry

Item DOC-8984

Description

Original Civil War document, written in period ink.


Headquarters, 3rd Brigade

Near New Market

April 24th 1862

Major,

You will order the pickets to be drawn in and to rejoin their regiments at an hour early enough to enable them to make their preparations for the march.

They should be notified of the march in season to have one days rations cooked.

By command of

Colonel Gordon
Commanding
3rd Brigade

C. P. Horton, A.A.A.G

To
Major Scott
29th Pennsylvania Regiment
Field Officer of the Day