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CONFEDERATE IMPRINT – Circular. Headquarters Reserve Forces, State of Arkansas. South of Little Rock, June 3rd, 1865.
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CONFEDERATE IMPRINT – Circular. Headquarters Reserve Forces, State of Arkansas. South of Little Rock, June 3rd, 1865.
The final Confederate imprint, issued nearly two months after Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox, ordering the surrender of forces in Arkansas. Newly discovered, unrecorded and very rare: no other example of this imprint could be traced in institutional or private holdings; not in Parrish & Wallingham. General Thomas P. Dockery addresses “the officers and soldiers of Reserve Forces of the State of Arkansas,” writing, “It becomes my duty to inform you that I have been furnished by Major General Reynolds, U.S.A. with an official copy of the terms of the Military Convention entered into on the 25th day of May, 1865 at New Orleans, between General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A., and Major General Canby, U.S.A., by which the Trans-Mississippi Department, with all the troops and Confederate property therein, was surrendered to the United States.” After ordering commanding officers to assemble with their men with their arms, Dockery assured his men “that all hostilities will cease, and personal property protected,” while admonishing them to pursue their pre-war occupations and to “abstain from all acts of hostility, lawlessness and retaliation.” In closing, he writes, “By the memories of the past and the hopes for the future, I beg of you to acquiesce quietly and in good faith, in the terms of surrender. You have from me every guarantee, that nothing but what is proper and honorable will be advised.” Although most fighting ceased after the surrender of Joseph E Johnston’s army to William T. Sherman on 26 April 1865, sporadic fighting continued in the Western Theater. On 23 June 1865, Cherokee leader Stand Waite became the last Confederate General to surrender his forces.
Broadside, 197 x 122 mm. Light scattered foxing.
The final Confederate imprint, issued nearly two months after Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox, ordering the surrender of forces in Arkansas. Newly discovered, unrecorded and very rare: no other example of this imprint could be traced in institutional or private holdings; not in Parrish & Wallingham. General Thomas P. Dockery addresses “the officers and soldiers of Reserve Forces of the State of Arkansas,” writing, “It becomes my duty to inform you that I have been furnished by Major General Reynolds, U.S.A. with an official copy of the terms of the Military Convention entered into on the 25th day of May, 1865 at New Orleans, between General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A., and Major General Canby, U.S.A., by which the Trans-Mississippi Department, with all the troops and Confederate property therein, was surrendered to the United States.” After ordering commanding officers to assemble with their men with their arms, Dockery assured his men “that all hostilities will cease, and personal property protected,” while admonishing them to pursue their pre-war occupations and to “abstain from all acts of hostility, lawlessness and retaliation.” In closing, he writes, “By the memories of the past and the hopes for the future, I beg of you to acquiesce quietly and in good faith, in the terms of surrender. You have from me every guarantee, that nothing but what is proper and honorable will be advised.” Although most fighting ceased after the surrender of Joseph E Johnston’s army to William T. Sherman on 26 April 1865, sporadic fighting continued in the Western Theater. On 23 June 1865, Cherokee leader Stand Waite became the last Confederate General to surrender his forces.
Broadside, 197 x 122 mm. Light scattered foxing.