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Walking The Tightrope: The United States’ Policy In Vietnam, 1952-1954, Erin Flynn

Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity

This thesis demonstrates how the Truman and Eisenhower administrations sought to avoid direct intervention in Indochina and halt the spread of communism at the same time. This purpose is achieved through careful analysis of primary and secondary sources, with a particular focus on the primary documentation found in Foreign Relations of the United States: 1952-1954. Through examination of these day-by-day recordings and memos, the futility of pursuing the two conflicting aims becomes clear.

General Order Number 38: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, September 8, 1865

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This General Order outlines procedures for providing rent to tenants or lessees of the Treasury Department vis-a-vis confiscated property.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

Stain markings ; 12 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 37: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, September 4, 1865

Rhode Island 11th United States Heavy Artillery General Orders Collection

This General Order outlines proceedings, findings and sentence of court-martialed Private John A. Ellis, 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

12 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 36: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, September 4, 1865

Rhode Island 11th United States Heavy Artillery General Orders Collection

This General Order provides regulations for providing quarters for families of soldiers.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

12 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 35: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, September 2, 1865

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This General Order outlines proceedings, findings and sentence of court-martialed 1st Lieutenant B.F. Bernard, 1st U.S. Cavalry.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

12 x 20 cm. Single page, double-sided.

General Order Number 34: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, September 1, 1865

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This General Order provides regulations to enforce Section 21 of the Act Of Congress, approved March 3d 1865, regarding military enrollment procedures.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

Extensively stained ; 13 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 33: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 29, 1865

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This General Order provides instructions in matters of processing illegal enlistments.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

Handwritten in bottom left: "Sept 2/65" ; 13 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 32: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 21, 1865

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This General Order provides information regarding Colonel F.A. Starring, Provost Marshal General, of the 72d Illinois Volunteers.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

13 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 31: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 19, 1865

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This General Order provides an extracted reprint regarding five dishonorably discharged officers of the 1st Provisional New York Cavalry. Originally published, Special Order Number 428, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, August 9th, 1865.

By order of the Secretary of War E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General, and Major General E.R.S. Canby via Major Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

13 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 30: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 13, 1865

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This General Order provides reprinted information regarding two dishonorably discharged officers of the 14th Kansas Cavalry. Originally published, Special Order Number 416, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, August 2nd, 1865.

By order of the Secretary of War, E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General, and Major General E.R.S. Canby via Major Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

13 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 29: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 11, 1865

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This General Order provides instruction for distribution of General and Special Orders.

By order of Major-General E.R.S. Canby via Major Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

13 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 28: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 8, 1865

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This General Order is a re-published version of General Order Number 129: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, July 25, 1865. Provides instructions on how to "secure equal justice and personal liberty".

By order of the Secretary of War E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General, and Major General E.R.S. Canby via Major Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

12 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 27: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 7, 1865

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This General Order is a re-published version of General Order Number 112: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, June 10, 1865. Provides regulations for Section 12, Chapter 79 of the Acts of Congress, passed March 3, 1865 for providing trials for those officers who believe to be wrongfully dismissed from service.

By order of the Secretary of War, E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General and Major General E.R.S. Canby via Major Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

13 x 20 cm. Single page.

General Order Number 26: Headquarters, Department Of Louisiana, August 7th, 1865

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This General Order is a re-published version of "ircular Number 1: Headquarters, Military Division of the Gulf, July 20th, 1865. It sets out instruction for purchasing rations. Provides additional information of such practices. Back side provides the Form used for such practices.

By order of Major General E.R.S. Canby via Major Wickham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.

12 x 20 cm. Single page, double sided.

General Order Number 2: Headquarters, U.S. Troops, Nov 3, 1864

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This General Order provides instructions for monetary compensation for soldiers based on their status (slave or freeman) as of April 19th, 1861, as previously ordered by the Secretary of War E.D. Townsend on August 1, 1864. By order of Brig Gen. Geo. L. Andrews via J. Lovell, Capt. and Asst. Adjt. Gen. 11 x 17 cm. 1 page, double sided.

General Order Number 1; Headquarters, U.S. Troops, October 31st, 1864

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This General Order specifies that 2nd Lieutenant and A.D.C Horace M. Wing assumes command of the U.S. Troops Department of the Gulf as of Oct 18th, 1864. Per Brig. Gen. Geo L. Andrews. 13 x 20 cm. Single page.