September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date Confederate imprint, "A Bill To be entitled An Act to authorize the consolidation of companies, battalions, and regiments." 2pp. octavo, 1864, and reads in part: "...The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That whenever any companies, battalions or regiments in service shall have been so far reduced in numbers as to make it necessary, in the opinion of the general commanding the department, or the separate army in the field, in which such companies, battalions or regiments are serving, to consolidate them, the said general, with the approval of the Secretary of War, is hereby authorized to consolidate them, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe..." VG.
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