GENERAL ORDERS, No. 25.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE
TENNESSEE,
Milliken's Bend,
La., April 22, 1863.
I. Corps, division, and post commanders will afford all
facilities for the completion of the negro regiments now organizing in this
department. Commissaries will issue supplies, and quartermasters will furnish
stores, on the same requisitions and returns as are required from other troops.
It is expected that all commanders will especially exert themselves in carrying
out the policy of the Administration, not only in organizing colored regiments
and rendering them efficient, but also in removing prejudice against them.
II. In accordance with General Orders, No. 85,
Adjutant-General's Office, series 1862, army corps commanders will cause to be
issued to all convalescent small-pox patients an entire suit of clothing, free
of charge, on being reported for duty by their medical officer. It will be the
duty of surgeons in charge of pest-houses to see that all clothing worn by the
patients during their sickness is destroyed, and all other necessary
precautions taken to prevent the spread of the disease. In the absence of corps
commanders, issues of clothing required by this order will be directed by the
highest military commander nearest the pest-houses.
By order of Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant:
JNO. A. RAWLINS,
Assistant
Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
24, Part 3 (Serial No. 38), p. 220
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