6 December 1862 “The Board will meet at your Head Quarters at 10 Oclock AM tomorrow for the examination of Officers of your command”

Item description: Orders, 6 December 1862, from Head Quarters in Wilmington to Brigadier General Thomas Lanier Clingman.

More about Thomas Lanier Clingman:
T. L. (Thomas Lanier) Clingman (1812-1897) was a businessman; mountain explorer; legislator for North Carolina and the United States; and Confederate colonel and brigadier general. Clingman was born in Huntsville, Surry (now Yadkin) County, N.C.  He served terms in both the United State House and Senate before the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1861 Clingman was commissioned as colonel of the 25th North Carolina Regiment and in 1862 was made brigadier general. He served primarily in eastern North Carolina and Virginia and took part in the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia near the end of the war. After the war, Clingman became active in promoting development in the western North Carolina mountain regions and was an avid explorer of the area.

Item citation: From folder 4 of the T. L. Clingman Papers, #157Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Head Quarters Wilmington N.C.
December 6th 1862


Brig. Genl. Clingman
Commanding Brigadr

 

General
I have the honor to forward you herewith a copy of Par VII of Special Orders No 25. The Board will meet at your Head Quarters at 10 Oclock AM tomorrow for the examination of Officers of your command for promotion, and those who may be elected to fill the junior vacancies.

I am General
Very Respectfully
Your ovt. Srvt.
James H. Hill
Chief of Staff & A.A.Genl
President of Board

Hd Qrs Wilmington
Dec 6th 1862
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Hill Ja H
Asst Adjt Genl
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Respecting a board
of examination

“Extract”                                                                           Head Quarters Wilmington N. C.
                                                                                                         December 6th 1862
Special Orders}
             No. 25}
            x                                                         x                                                                x
                         IV. A leave of absence for Ten (10) Days upon Surgeons certificate of disability is hereby granted Captain Stanford 51st Regt. N.C. Troops
            x                                                        x                                                                 x
                                                                                   By Command of Brig Genl Whiting
                                                                                                              W. (?) Strong             
                                                                                                                         A.A.Genl

 

Capt Stanford
51st Reg
———————-
Hd Qrs Wilmington
Decr 6th 1862
————————
Hill Ja H
A A Genl
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Special Order
No 25

 
Extract”                                                                                      Head Quarters Wilmington N. C.
December 6th 1862
Special Orders}
               No. 25}
x                                                           x                                                          x
                                                    VII. The following is the Board for Examination of Officers for promotion
                                                                                   Maj Jas H. Hill Chief of Staff
                                                                                   Maj B. W. Frobel C. S. Artillery
                                                                                   Capt Robt Sansill C. S. Artillery
                                                                                   Lieut Fairley A. D. C. assigned as recorder
The board to request at such time and place as Maj Hill will direct (?) have authority to summon officers for examination
x                                                            x                                                        x
                                                                                                 James H. Hill
                                                                                                 Chief of Staff & AAGenl

Hd Qrs Wilmington
Decr 6th 1862
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Hill Ja H
A A Genl
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Special Order
No 25

 

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