Special Order Number 39, issued Brigadier General Edward Higgins.

The order appoints Major Henry Semple as commander of the "Inner and Outer Lines of Redoubts" while his senior officer is temporarily absent. During the Civil War, Semple served as a captain of an artillery battery organized in Montgomery (known as Semple's Battery). He was later appo...

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Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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