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An original Civil War Reconstruction era General Order issued at Headquarters Asst Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, District of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, December 20, 1867 by General RK Scott announcing the creation of Sub-Districts of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the State of South Carolina naming the Sub- Districts for each City- Laurensville for Greenville, Spartansburg, Pickens, Laurens, Anderson, also HQ at Aiken, Columbia & Charleston, the Districts within each and their Commissioners with duties. 2p 8 x 5\" ptd. Disbound, age stains, edge cuts Overall VG.
General & Special Orders were issued tocommunicate commands and information to the Army. Each order, issued in writingby a commander, was then printed for distribution to each unit, either at anarmy department headquarter or by commanders at local headquarters, sometimesin the field on portable printing presses. The orders were then issued toregiments, often to be read aloud to the troops.
General Orders were printed as issued withdate & location; at the end of a year the regimental adjutant mightretain them loose or simply string bind them by punching holes and stringing on¼” red cloth string tape (the source of the old expression \"government redtape\"). Sometimes an officer or HQ clerk might take a group of orders to alocal print shop or bookbinder and have an accumulation bound with leather orcloth covers.
Usually, American Military Orders of the 19thcentury including Civil War era were printed on an 8 x 5” sheet of quality ragpaper.
