CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA DURYEA ZOUAVE MUTINY ORDER MORRIS ISLAND

Description: The 165th NY Duryea Zouaves served w distinction in the 1864 Port Hudson and Red River Louisiana campaigns, and in Virginia the last year of the War. The unit made national news in 1865 while occupying Savannah, Georgia and then Charleston, South Carolina when some officers and men refused serve alongside black soldiers also on occupation duty. At the time Southern papers claimed the Zouaves believed that the black soldiers were a threat to Southern white women. When Generals Gillmore, Hatch and Benedict declared that Federal troops could not pick and chose who to serve with, t44 officers and men were declared in mutiny for refusing the order to surrender their regimental colors, and ordered to brief imprisonment, first at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, and then again at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina. They were eventually honorably discharged once the officers and the men obeyed the order. An original Civil War General Order, issued Hilton Head, South Carolina, Sept 7,1865 charges Surgeon George C Hubbard and Captain William R French, 165th New York Volunteers with insubordination in regard to the order to surrender the regimental flags to General John Porter Hatch while in the presence of the General & the officers of the 165th at Morris Island, SC, July 14, 1865. Captain French is found not guilty but Surgeon Hubbard is found Guilty and is reprimanded for insubordination. 3 pp 8 x 5" ptd. 2 punch slits left margin, Overall VG. Comes w service info.General & Special Orders were issued to communicate commands and information to the Army. Each order, issued in writing by a command, was then printed for distribution to each unit, either at an army department headquarter or by commanders at local headquarters in the field on portable printing presses operated by soldiers. The orders were then issued to regiments, to be read aloud to the troops. General Orders were printed as issued with date & location; at the end of a year the regimental adjutant might retain them loose or simply string bind them by punching holes or cut slits in the left margin and stringing on ¼” red cloth string tape (the source of the old expression "government red tape"). Sometimes an officer or HQ clerk might take a group of orders to a local print shop or bookbinder and have an accumulation bound with leather or cloth covers. Usually, American Military Orders of the 19th century including Civil War era were printed on an 8 x 5” sheet of quality rag paper.Welcome to my Ebay Auctions and Ebay Store. I am a specialist in early American Military & Historical items, especially American Civil War ephemera- letters, military & historic documents including broadsides, commissions, General Orders and other imprints and badges. I have been collecting and selling original American Civil War & US Military memorabilia for 41 yearsMy customers have included some of the leading names in collecting and selling American History items, as well was as a wide range of novice & advanced collectors in addition to some 30 US federal, state, public and private university & municipal museums and libraries. All items are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic and in the condition as described.I am a longtime member of the Company of Military Historians, the New England Antique Arms Association, the Ephemera Society of America & the Civil War Veterans Historical Assn.NOTE: Any repair to a paper item is listed. I use only museum curator approved archival repair tape. I SELL ONLY ORIGINAL ITEMS, AND HAVE BEEN A PROFESSIONAL FULL TIME SELLER OF ANTIQUE HISTORICAL ITEMS SINCE 1980. PLEASE SEE MY EBAY STORE FOR OTHER LISTINGS.PLEASE READ DETAILS OF THE ITEM DESCRIPTION. I TRY TO DESCRIBE ALL ITEMS ACCURATELY U.S. SHIPPING ONLYI ship only USPS priority mail with insurance

Price: 145 USD

Location: Angier, North Carolina

End Time: 2023-12-05T19:27:44.000Z

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