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Special Order 191 (series 1862), also known as the "Lost Dispatch" and the "Lost Order", was a general movement order issued by Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee on about September 9, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.
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.
On the afternoon of July 2, a massive attack by Lt. Gen. James Longstreet on the Union's left flank caused army commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade to order Williams to transfer his entire corps to reinforce the left, in the vicinity of Little Round Top. Williams convinced Meade of the importance of Culp's Hill and managed to retain one brigade ...
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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In actual history, a C.S. Army messenger lost a copy of General Robert E. Lee's Special Order 191, which detailed Lee's plans for an invasion of the North. The order was soon found by U.S. Army soldiers, and using them, George McClellan fought the Army of Northern Virginia to a draw at the Battle of Antietam and made it return to Virginia.
Oddly, even the National Archives catalog falls into this de-pluralisation. On this catalog page the title is "Special Order No. 191 from General Robert E. Lee", but the scan clearly shows "Special Orders No 191" (with no period after the abbreviated Numero, as is still common in the U.K.). —Undomelin 15:27, 7 November 2017 (UTC)