WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
April 13, 1865.
Major-General DIX,
New York:
The Department, after mature consideration and consultation
with the lieutenant-general upon the results of the recent campaigns, has come
to the following determination, which will be carried into effect by
appropriate orders to be immediately issued:
1. To stop all drafting and recruiting in the loyal States.
2. To curtail purchases for arms, ammunition, quartermaster and commissary
supplies, and reduce the expenses of the military establishment in its several
branches. 3. To reduce the number of general and staff officers to the actual
necessities of the service. 4. To remove all military restriction upon trade
and commerce so far as may be consistent with public safety.
As soon as these measures can be put in operation it will be
made known by public orders.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume
46, Part 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 744
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