General Orders, Adjutant General's Office, 1881

Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1881. Hardcover. The United States Army General Orders for the year 1881. Three-quarter leather over marbled paper boards. Leather is heavily rubbed and scuffed. Binding tight. Speckled edges, edge toning on endpapers, and vertical folds in most of the orders. Light soil on a few pages. 28 pp index, 93 orders, [8] pp forms. The order announcing James A. Garfield's death is the only signed order, by RC Drum, Adjutant General. It is followed by the announcement of Chester A. Arthur taking the oath of office. A fold-out table lists clothing allowances, a legal opinion from the Department of Justice explains a case of miners who were claiming mineral rights on Fort Maginnis, Montana land, and a 41-page order gives the budget details of funds appropriated by Congress in 1881. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .