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Confederate Roll of Honor
Confederate Roll of Honor and the Maryland (Antietam)
Campaign
Confederate
Roll of Honor.
SEPTEMBER 3-20, 1862.-The Maryland Campaign.
O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XIX/1 [S# 27]
GENERAL
ORDERS No. 93.
ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond,
Va., November 22,
1862.
I. The following acts of Congress,
having been approved by the President, are published for the information of the Army:
No. 27.--AN ACT to authorize
the grant of medals and badges of distinction as a reward for courage and good conduct on the field-of battle.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to bestow medals, with proper devices, upon
such officers of the armies of the Confederate States as shall be conspicuous for courage and good conduct on the field of
battle; and also to confer a badge of distinction upon one private or non-commissioned officer of each company after every
signal victory it shall have assisted to achieve. The non-commissioned officers and privates of the company who may be present
on the first dress-parade thereafter rosy choose, by a majority of their votes, the soldier best entitled to receive such
distinction, whose name shall be communicated to the President by commanding officers of the company; and if the award fall
upon a deceased soldier, the badge thus awarded him shall be delivered to his widow; or, if there be no widow, to any relation
the President may adjudge entitled to receive it.
Approved October 13, 1862.
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant
and Inspector General.
GENERAL ORDERS, } ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 131. Richmond, Va., October 3, 1863.
Difficulties in procuring the medals and badges of distinction having delayed their presentation by the President, as authorized
by the act of Congress approved October 13, 1862, to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the armies of
the Confederate States conspicuous for courage and good conduct on the field of battle, to avoid postponing the grateful recognition
of their valor until it can be made in the enduring form provided by that act, it is ordered--
I. That the names of all those
who have been, or may hereafter be, reported as worthy of this distinction, be inscribed on a roll of honor, to be preserved
in the office of the Adjutant and Inspector General for reference in all future time, for those who have deserved well of
their country, as having best displayed their courage and devotion on the field of battle.
II. That the roll of honor,
so far as now made up, be appended to this order, and read at the head of every regiment in the service of the Confederate
States at the first dress-parade after its receipt, and be published in at least one newspaper in each State.
III. The attention of the
officers in charge is directed to General Orders, No. 93, section No. 27, of the series of 1862, Adjutant and Inspector General's
Office, for the mode of selecting the non-commissioned officers and privates entitled to this distinction, and its execution
is enjoined.
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant
and Inspector General
GENERAL ORDERS No. 64.
ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond,
Va., August 10,
1864.
I. The following roll of honor
is published in accordance with Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 131, 1863. It will be read to every regiment in the service
at the first dress-parade after its receipt.
(Webmaster Note: * = Killed
in Action)
BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG.
Alabama.
Eighth Regiment of Infantry:
Corpl. Davis
Tucker, Company A.
Sergt. G. T. L. Robison, Company B.
Private John Curry, Company C.
Sergt.
C. F. Brown, Company D.
*Sergt. T. S. Ryan, Company E.
Corpl. J. R. Searcy, Company F.
*Fifth
Sergt. James Castello, Company G.
*Private J. Herbert., Company
H.
Private James Ryan, Company I.
*Private O. M. Harris, Company K.
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
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GENERAL ORDERS No. 87.
ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, Va., December 10, 1864.
I. The following roll of honor
is published in accordance with Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 131, 1863. It will be read to every regiment in the service
at the first dress-parade after its receipt.
* * * * * * * * * *
BATTLE OF BOONSBOROUGH.
Mississippi.
Second Regiment Mississippi Infantry:
Private R. L. Boone, Company A.
Sergt. T. B. McKay,
Company B.
Sergt. Robert Harris, Company C.
Private W. B. Houston, Company D.
Private
G. W. Monk, Company E.
Private T. G. N. Thompson, Company F.
*Private John Vanzant, Company G.
Private B. Weatherington, Company H.
Private
E. Browning, Company I.
Private James L. Ackers, Company K.
*Private Jacob McCarty, Company L.
BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG.
Mississippi.
Second
Regiment Mississippi Infantry:
*Private W. H. Looney, Company A.
*Private
H. H. Johns, Company B.
*Private A. C. Howard, Company C.
*Private J. B. Elliott, Company D.
*Sergt.
J.P. Black, Company F.
Sergt. F. H. Daggett, Company G.
*Sergt. P. F, Harris, Company H.
*Corpl.
M. L. Golding, Company I.
*Private J. W. Gibson, Company K.
*Private Leander Griffin, Company L.
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He has spent countless hours researching the character of each recipient and their heroic-selfless actions. Whether a descendant
of the North or the South, this book will make you feel the emotion that drove these men to risk their lives for their values
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reports and pamphlets, which feature some well known and not so well known people who faced danger and uncertainty and showed
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George Washington University Law School. Although born in New Jersey and a graduate of Rutgers College, he has spent most
of his life in Northern Virginia, the major theater of the Civil War. Courage in Blue and Gray is his first collection of
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Recommended
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Description: This book offers over 50 dramatic, bittersweet accounts of the last moments and words of Southern soldiers (some
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Approaching
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armies, and the ways in which participants and people behind the lines interpreted and remembered the campaign. They also
discuss the performance of untried military units and offer a look at how the United States Army used the Antietam battlefield
as an outdoor classroom for its officers in the early twentieth century. Also available in paperback: The Antietam Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)
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