Search billions of records on Ancestry.com
   
General Orders No. 46,
War Department,
April 23, 1862.

GENERAL ORDERS, }     WAR DEPARTMENT,
                                    }         ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
           No. 46.             }             Washington, April 23, 1862.

    I. Surgeon General Clement A. Finley, U. S. Army, having applied to be retired from active duty, after more than forty years' service, the President of the United States directs that his name be placed upon the list of retired officers, to date from April 14, 1862.
    II. Surgeons from civil life who tender their service for the sick and wounded in the field, under the invitation of the Secretary of War, will each be allowed, while so employed, the use of a public horse, a tent, the necessary servants, and the privilege of purchasing subsistence stores from the Commissary Department.
    III. The attention of Commanders of Armies, Departments, Divisions, and detached Brigades, by whom paragraph 448, General Regulations, has been neglected, is specially direct to its requirement concerning forwarding copies of all their orders in the Adjutant General's Office

    BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
                                                       L. THOMAS,
                                                            Adjutant General.
    OFFICIAL:

Assistant Adjutant General.


Source:

General Orders, No. 46, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, April 23, 1862.

Created April 20, 2004; Revised April 20, 2004
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/index.htm
Comments to chwynkoop@hotmail.com

Copyright © 2004 by Christopher H. Wynkoop, All Rights Reserved

This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my written consent.

Site map

The Wynkoop Family Research Library
Home