Louisiana CIVIL War Confederate Yellow Jacket Secret Execution Order
During the Bayou Teche Campaign Union Forces captured a rebel bearing an order issued by General Alfred Mouton at HQ South of the Red River, Vermilionville, June 12, 1863 commanding Major GA Fournette, the Yellow Jacket Battalion to scour the Calcasieu River parishes for outlaws & traitors, naming the ringleaders including "Carriere, Ozime" etc, ordering "NO prisoners should be taken" and "jayhawkers to be shot immediately", this order be "kept secret" by Mouton's Command, Louis Bush, AAG. This original unsigned circular was field printed by General Washburn's Division, 19th Army Corp who captured the order near Martinsville, Louisiana.
3pp 8 x 5 ptd. Disbound, edge w archival repair, Overall VG. World Cat lists 1 copy and this is from my collection, the second one I have ever seen. 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, sometimes in the field on portable printing presses. The orders were then issued to regiments, often 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 and stringing on ΒΌ" 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 19. Century including Civil War era were printed on an 8 x 5 sheet of quality rag paper. General Orders and other imprints.
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