Civil War - Military Orders

On August 21, 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis issued General Order No. 60 declaring Union Major General David Hunter an outlaw because Hunter had issued General Order No. 11 (Department of the South), on May 9, 1862, which emancipated slaves in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

On November 29, 1863, General Braxton Bragg wrote to General Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate Army, asking to be relieved from command of the Army Tennessee.

On May 24, 1861, Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston issued an unnumbered order announcing that he had assume command of the Confederate forces in the vicinity of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, as ordered by the secretary of war.