[Civil War]:

$900 · Offered by William Reese Company

[THREE SEPARATE WORKS CONTAINING GENERAL ORDERS AND A CIRCULAR FROM THE UNION ARMY'S DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, PRINTED JUST AFTER THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR, REGARDING ISSUES RELEVANT TO THE END OF AN ... A fascinating trio of printed general orders and circulars issued from Hilton Head by the Union Army's Department of the South in the two months after Lee's surrender. The three publications include a total of six general orders and a circular. Each touches upon a subject related to the end of war, and the various issues that must be dealt with to ensure peace and settle military enrollment and business matters. The three works here include:1) "Headquarters Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C., May 31, 1865." General Orders No. 80, May 11, 1865, and General Orders No. 90, May 11, 1865. The latter reads, in part: "Punishment of Guerrillas. All the forces of the enemy, east of the Mississippi river, having been duly surrendered...under agreements of parole and disbandment...it is Ordered that from and after the first day of June, 1865, any and all persons found in arms against the United States, or who may commit acts of hostility against it...will be regarded as guerrillas and punished with death...."2) "Headquarters Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C., June 6, 1865." General Orders No. 83, signed in type by Secretary of State William H. Seward, May 29, 1865. Also signed in ink by acting Assistant Adjutant General T.D. Hodges. The order reads, in part:"A copy of t

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