Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 105

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR--1865.) Cadwalader, George. General order for a 200-gun salute in celebration of Lee's surrender. Printed general order #46 from the Department of Pennsylvania, signed by T. Brent Swearingen as adjutant. One page, 7 x 5 inches; disbound, with two stab holes. Philadelphia, 10 April 1865

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"A salute of (200) two hundred guns will be fired, at every Post and Arsenal in this Department, on the day of the receipt of this order, in commemoration of the Surrender of General R.E. Lee."