General Order on the Death of Colonel Heiman.

HEADQUARTERS 1ST DIVISION 1ST CORPS ARMY

OF WEST TENNESSEE,

Camp Tippah Ford, November 21st, 1862.
General Orders No. 17.

It becomes the painful duty of the brigadier general commanding this division to announce to it the death of Colonel A. HEIMAN, 10th Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, and commanding 2d brigade.

In the death of Colonel Heiman the army has sustained a great loss, and the gallant 10th an irreparable one. As a soldier as well as a civilian, all loved him who knew him. His warm and generous heart was filled not only will all tender feelings that so characterized and graced his intercourse with society, but overrun with zeal and enthusiasm for the cause of his adopted country. A Prussian by birth, for a quarter of a century he had been identified with the people of the South. In peace he was engaged in various useful branches of public improvements, leaving behind him many monuments of his ability and taste. In the war with Mexico he was an early volunteer, serving with great distinction with the Tennessee troops; and when the tocsin of war was sounded that called every man of the South to rise in defense of all that was near and dear to them, Colonel Heiman at once organized the 10th Tennessee Regiment, proceeded to Fort Henry and completed the fortifications of that place. The history of the struggles of Forts Henry and Donelson are histories of his own gallantry and devotion to the Southern cause. A patient and uncomplaining inmate of Northern prisons for six months, he returned to the field of duty, and as the commander of the 2d brigade of this division gave promise of future successes that could but have added new laurels to his already rich reputation as a soldier and a man.

The general commanding this division directs that all officers of this command, as well as the soldiers of his own regiment, wear the usual badge of mourning on the left arm for thirty days.

By order of Brig. Gen. LLOYD TILGHMAN,

GEORGE MOORMAN,

A. A. G.