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 ...
Robert E. Lee issued Special Order 191 during the Maryland campaign, before the Battle of Antietam. A copy of the order having been lost, was recovered by ...
McClellan halted Lee's invasion into the North, but did not pursue the Confederates. The ramification of the loss and find of the "Lost Order," ...
Lee issued a special order, No. 191, dividing his army into two parts, starting Sept . 10. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson would get two-thirds ...
Described varyingly as “the all-time military jackpot,” a great intelligence coup handed out “on a silver platter,” and more, the idea that a lost copy ...
Special Orders No. 191, later known as the Lost Order, was issued by General Robert E. Lee on September 9, 1862 during the Maryland ...
Could it be that the Civil War's greatest piece of intelligence, Lee's Special Orders 191, was deliberately passed into Union hands? Such is the thesis of the ...
was slow to act, and the advantage the intelligence provided was lost.
Lee's Ruse of War: Special Order 191 ©. By: Joe Ryan. Who Wrote The Lost Order? General Lee ...
Lee's "Lost Orders" Prior to Antietam: A Historical Note. By Charles B. Dew. What was arguably the most incredible string of coincidences that occurred during ...