Office of the Chief of the Armies
Confederate States of America
Attention to orders # 4-1: Promotion of Ed Stewart
Effective: 12 August 1863
Lt. General Ed Stewart, serial # CSAES1080 is hereby promoted from Lt. General to General in the armed forces of the Confederate States of America.
General Stewart has displayed the skill and competence required to be a General as Army Commander for Army of Northern Virginia. General Stewart is a credit to Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate States of America.
I take great pride in awarding him this promotion.
Given on this 12th day of August, 1863 by the authority of the ACWGC Cabinet
Willie Tisdale
General
Chief of the Armies
Confederate States of America
Willie Tisdale
"The Gray Fox"
General
Chief of Armies - CSA
ACWGC Cabinet Member
"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can may revolutionize and make their own of so many of the territory as they inhabit."
Abraham Lincoln
January 12, 1848.
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