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The hill on the Best Farm where the lost order was discovered is located outside of Frederick, Maryland, and was a key Confederate artillery position in the 1864 Battle of Monocacy. A historical marker on the Monocacy National Battlefield commemorates the finding of Special Order 191 during the Maryland Campaign.
On the way, troops from the division found the famous Confederate "lost dispatch," Special Order 191, that revealed Gen. Robert E. Lee's plan for the campaign and gave Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan key insights on how to defeat Lee's divided army.
Bloss fought on the Union side with the 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment.He was one of the soldiers who helped recover Special Order 191, "Lee's Lost Dispatch", which provided invaluable military intelligence about General Robert E. Lee's plans, resulting in the Battle of Antietam.
While McClellan's 87,000-man [7] Army of the Potomac was moving to intercept Lee, two Union soldiers (Cpl. Barton W. Mitchell and First Sergeant John M. Bloss [16] [17] of the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry) discovered a mislaid copy of Lee's detailed battle plans—Special Order 191—wrapped around three cigars. The order indicated that Lee ...
It later turned up that a mislaid copy of Lee's movement order revealing the Confederates' strategic plans for Maryland Campaign—the so-called Special Order 191—was given to Union commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan. Emboldened by obtained intelligence, McClellan decided to force his army through the passes in the South Mountain range ...
The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 [1] is a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, [2] [3] beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade. The period addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, up to the mid-1940s.
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The identity of the writer of Special Order 191, the lost order that McClellan received from the field, is yet to be identified. However, Lt. Col. Chilton did sign his name on S.O. 191, this being the proof of authenticity needed to convince the over cautious Maj. Gen. McClellen after a member of staff, who had served with Chilton in the old U ...