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Collection Reference Number GLC01258
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1860s 
Title General order no. 94, written by order of General Sherman but signed by J.H. Hammond as Adjutant General, requests that the post Quarter Master provide a storehouse, and also directs the men to be ready to march by 26 November
Date 23 November 1862
Author Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)  
Document Type Military document
Content Description Written by order of General Sherman but signed by J. H. Hammond as Adjutant General. Assigns Brigadier General Jacob Gartner Lauman commander of 6th Brigade. Provides for the garrisoning of Fort Pickering by three regiments of regulars and one or two companies of sick and wounded. Requests that the post Quarter Master provide a storehouse, so that the men about to march may leave their excess baggage behind. Directs the men to be ready to march by 26 November. These maneuvers eventually culminated on Sherman's assault on Chickasaw Bluffs, an early part of the Vicksburg campaign.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union General  Health and Medical  Injury or Wound  
People Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)  Lauman, Jacob Gartner (1813-1867)  
Place written Memphis, Tennessee
Theme The American Civil War; Health & Medicine
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945