Printed "General Orders No. 3" mourning the death of U. S. Grant, three pages on two adjoining black-bordered sheets, 5.25 x 8, issued by John Cameron at the Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic, July 24, 1885. In part: "Expressing the profound grief of his comrades everywhere, the Commander-in-Chief performs the duty of formally announcing the death of Comrade Ulysses S. Grant, late a member of George G. Meade Post, No. 1, Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic…Upon the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he offered his services to his country without condition…He was the peerless soldier of his own age, and without a superior in any other…Called by the imperative voice of his fellow-citizens to the office of President of the United States, for eight years he stood in their chief place, and, surrendering then his trust, left to his successor a country which in every element of present strength and promise of future prosperity and glory surpassed the dream of the most sanguine…Let the colors at National and Department headquarters and of the Posts be draped, and the usual badge of mourning be worn for sixty days." In fine condition.
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