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Order Number 908 giving Brig. Gen R. B. Todd authority to call out militia, Louisiana. December 4, 1862

HDQRS. LOUISIANA MILITIA, ADJT. GEN'S OFFICE
Alexandria, December 4, 1862
Orders No. 908

I. Brig. Gen. R. B. Todd, commanding Eleventh Brigade, Louisiana Militia, should deem it necessary for the defense of the parishes of Madison, Carroll, and Tensas, and to prevent the enemy to effect a landing or to proceed into the interior of the State, and if it be necessary to give aid and assistance to the Confederate authorities to repel any attack by the enemy, shall call out into active service the militia force of his brigade and all persons who are not subject to conscription between the ages of eighteen and forty years, and will place them into such camps as he may deem necessary and advisable.
By order of Thomas O. Moore, Governor and commander in chief:

M. GRIVOT
Adjutant and Inspector General Louisiana.


SOURCE: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series 1, Volume 15, pg. 887

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