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Submitted by Mark Jaeger to the Authentic Campaigner in 2001.
(Mark's comments seen in italics)
(General Order No. 189) - Issue of Shelter Tents (I think this [G.O. #] is right-- can't read it. - MJ)
10 May 1864
WAR DEPARTMENT
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
WASHINGTON, May 2, 1864.
1. The attention of all officers is called to General Order 160, series of 1862, providing for the issue of shelter tents, instead of common, wall, or Sibley tents. When troops refuse to accept shelter tents, they will not be furnished with any. Troops, in garrison, at stations, or in detachments, can construct huts, if they prefer them to shelter tents. Quartermasters are prohibited from issuing tents other than the kind provided for, no matter by whom the requisitions are approved, or by whose order the issues are directed to be made, until otherwise ordered through the Adjutant General of the Army.
2. Commanding officers of Departments, and of troops, and the Quartermaster General, will be held responsible for the enforcement and due observance of this order, and any one who shall issue or direct the issue of tents other than as prescribed will be tried by court-martial, or reported for summary dismissal.
By command of Lieutenant-General Grant;
E. D. TOWNSEND
Assistant Adjutant General
Paul, this is great. Looks like shelter tents were so hated that Grant had to crack down and tell the troops "go take it...or go without." -MJ
(Mark's comments seen in italics)
(General Order No. 189) - Issue of Shelter Tents (I think this [G.O. #] is right-- can't read it. - MJ)
10 May 1864
WAR DEPARTMENT
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
WASHINGTON, May 2, 1864.
1. The attention of all officers is called to General Order 160, series of 1862, providing for the issue of shelter tents, instead of common, wall, or Sibley tents. When troops refuse to accept shelter tents, they will not be furnished with any. Troops, in garrison, at stations, or in detachments, can construct huts, if they prefer them to shelter tents. Quartermasters are prohibited from issuing tents other than the kind provided for, no matter by whom the requisitions are approved, or by whose order the issues are directed to be made, until otherwise ordered through the Adjutant General of the Army.
2. Commanding officers of Departments, and of troops, and the Quartermaster General, will be held responsible for the enforcement and due observance of this order, and any one who shall issue or direct the issue of tents other than as prescribed will be tried by court-martial, or reported for summary dismissal.
By command of Lieutenant-General Grant;
E. D. TOWNSEND
Assistant Adjutant General
Paul, this is great. Looks like shelter tents were so hated that Grant had to crack down and tell the troops "go take it...or go without." -MJ