General Orders – No. 263, 28 September 1864

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General Orders No. 263, issued from the War Department in Washington D.C., assigning Major General Joseph Hooker to the Northern Department and relieving Major General Heintzelman.

GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 263. ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,

Washington, September 28, 1864

I.. By direction of the President of the United States, Major General JOSEPH HOOKER is assigned to the command of the Northern Department. He will immediately proceed to Columbus, Ohio, and relieve Major General HEINTZELMAN.

II.. Major General HEINTZELMAN, on being relieved in command of the Northern Department, will repair to Wheeling, West Virginia, report thence by letter to the Adjutant General of the Army, and there wait until he receives orders.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. Townsend,

Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Assistant Adjutant General

Samuel P. Heintzelman graduated from the United State Military Academy in 1826. He served in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the Yuma War before being promoted to Brigadier General in May of 1861. He led the III Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsula Campaign. He was eventually relieved of command due to his age and waning aggression. He retired in 1869 and passed away in 1880.

Joseph Hooker graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837. He served in the Seminole War and the Mexican-American War. He resigned from the military in 1853 and moved to California after his reputation was damaged by testifying in the court martial of General Gideon Pillow. At the outbreak of the Civil War he returned east and requested a commission. He commanded the 2nd Division of the III Corps in the Peninsula Campaign, and was appointed to command of the Army of the Potomac in January of 1863. He led the XX Corps in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 until he was sent to the Northern Department. He was at the head of Lincoln’s funeral procession as it traveled through Springfield, IL on May 4, 1865. He retired from the army in 1866 and passed away in 1874.

General Orders – No. 262, 23 September 1864

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General Orders No. 262, issued from the War Department in Washington D.C., extends a discount to charitable and religious organizations for travel permits between seaports via steam transports.

GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 262. ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,

Washington, September 23, 1864

Benevolent, charitable, religious, and educational aid associations, operating, by permission of proper military authority, within rebel States and districts, may, upon application to the War Department, receive permits for transportation for officers, agents, and employees, to and from seaports between which steam transports ply in the service of the War Department: said permits to secure to the persons named therein, passage at one-half the rates charged to civilians and others traveling not on duty, nor under official orders.

This privilege is not extended to railroads nor steamers on Western waters.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. Townsend,

Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Assistant Adjutant General

General Orders – No. 258, 19 September 1864

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General Orders No. 258, issued from the War Department in Washington D.C., regarding how fines imposed via military courts are to be paid.

GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 258. ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,

Washington, September 19, 1864

Fines imposed by Military Courts.

Whenever fines are imposed by sentence of General Court Martial, or Military Commission, upon officers or citizens, the Judge Advocate of the Court or Commission will make a special report of the fact to the Adjutant General, giving a copy of the sentence in the case. The officer who confirms a sentence imposing a fine will transmit to the Adjutant General a special report thereof, together with a copy of the order promulgating the proceedings.
The fines will be paid to the chief officer of the Quartermaster’s Department at the place where the prisoner may be, and no other person is authorized to receive them. Such fines must not be applied to any purpose, but the officer receiving them will forthwith remit the amounts to the Adjutant General of the Army, at Washington, with the names of prisoners who paid them, and the number of the order promulgating the proceedings.
All officers who have heretofore received fines will forthwith report to the Adjutant General the amounts received, by whom paid, number and date of order promulgating the proceedings, and what disposition was made of the money. The amounts will be forwarded with the reports.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. Townsend,

Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Assistant Adjutant General

General Orders – No. 254, 12 September 1864

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General Orders No. 254, issued from the War Department in Washington D.C., stating all deserters who come into the city are to return to their regiments, if they do not report their regiment they are to be sent to the front to work on the trenches.

GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 254. ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,

Washington, September 12, 1864

Deserters from the United States troops arriving in Washington, who report themselves as belonging to any particular Regiment, and are sent to it, shall be permanently assigned to the Regiment of which they thus report themselves members. Deserters now in the prisons of the District, or who may hereafter arrive, whose Regiments are unknown, shall be sent immediately to the front, with instructions to the Commanding Generals of the Armies to employ them at work upon the trenches.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. Townsend,

Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Assistant Adjutant General

General Orders – No. 18, 31 July 1865

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General Orders No. 18, issued from the Union Headquarters in New Orleans, allowing soldiers to retain their arms after the war’s end if they pay for them.

Soldiers allowed to retain their arms

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS,

No. 18. DEPARTMENT OF LOUISIANA AND TEXAS

New Orleans, La., July 31, 1865

I. In accordance with instructions from the War Department, all soldiers honorably mustered out of the service, who desire to take advantage of General Orders, No. 101, War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, current series, authorizing them to retain their arms and accouterments on paying therefor their value, must signify their intention before leaving the filed, that it may be entered and charged on their muster-out rolls. The prices fixed by the Ordnance Department are as follows:

Muskets (all kinds, with or without accouterments) Six Dollars.

Spencer Carbines, (with or without accouterments) Ten Dollars.

All other Carbines and Revolvers, (with or without accouterments,) Eight Dollars.

Sabres and Swords, (with or without belts,) Three Dollars.

II. In order that no delay may be occasioned in the payment of mustered out troops, when they arrive at their respective places of enlistment, proper remarks will be made on the muster-out rolls of balance of clothing account, and traveling distance from the State rendezvous where they were mustered out, to place of enlistment.

Company officers, Commissaries and Assistant Commissaries of Musters will be held responsible that the proper remarks are made on the muster-out rolls as directed in the above order.

BY ORDER OF MAJOR-GENERAL E. R. S. Canby:

WICKHAM HOFFMAN,

Major, Assistant Adjutant General

Official:

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