Leroy P Walker’s Special Orders, No. 1, March 7, 1861

SPECIAL ORDERS, NO. 1} 

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,     

Montgomery, Ala., March 7, 1861. 

1. Brig. Gen. Braxton Bragg, of the Provisional Army, Confederate States of America, is assigned to the command of the troops in and near Pensacola, Fla., to which station he will proceed without delay.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

GEO. DEAS    ,

Acting Adjutant-General.

SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1 (Serial No. 1), p. 448; Don Carlos Seitz, Braxton Bragg, General of the Confederacy, p. 30