General Orders No. 42 – [Regulations for the Care of the Field-Works, and the Government of their Garrisons]

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18.5×12 cm. Fore edge worn, otherwise very good. 8 pp. Lists rules and procedures for establishing a garrison with instructions for the care and handling of artillery pieces and other smaller weaponry and ammunition. Among the directions included is one instructing that a General Officers will be saluted (by cannon fire) only once each year at each post as “A great deal of powder is wasted in unnesessary salutes.” Issued on February 2, 1864 by E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General by Command of Major General Halleck.