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1249 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

Page 1249 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MILITARY DIV. OF THE JAMES, Numbers 9.
Richmond, Va., June 2, 1865.

So much of General Orders, Numbers 2, as prohibits the importation and sale of spirituous liquors is rescinded. But this change of orders will not be construed to permit the retail of such liquors in any place or at any military post where such retail is prohibited by special orders.

By order of Major-General Halleck:

J. C. KELTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF COMMONWEALTH,

Richmond, Va., June 2, 1865.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Commanding Department, &c.:

GENERAL: It is respectfully requested that so much of the Richmond and Danville Richmond as lies between this city and Burkeville, together with the company shops and other property on the Manchester side of the James River, including a sufficient amount of rolling stock to meet the requirements of transportation, be at once turned over to the board of public works of Virginia in order that they may place the same in the hands of an agent of the company with instructions to open the road for business without further delay.

I am, very respectfully, yours, &c.,

F. H. PEIRPOINT,

President of Board of Public Works, Virginia.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Numbers 64.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 2, 1865.

That portion of the Department of Pennsylvania embracing the counties of Berks, Schuylkill, Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Monroe, Luzerne, and Wyoming, Pa., will comprise the Lehigh District, headquarters at Tamaqua, Pa.

By command of Major-General Cadwalader:

JOHN S. SCHULTZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

FORT MONROE, June 2, 1865.

Colonel E. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: I have just learned from a servant girl of Jeff. Davis' that went to Norfolk before Davis left the Clyde, that a servant of his, James Jones, colored, who left the Clyde soon after its arrival here, has left here, going over the route, via Raleigh, where his mother resides, and said before he left he knew where two bags of money were concealed near where Davis was captured, amounting to &10,000, and that he was going to find it.

Respectfully,

NELSON A. MILES,

Brevet Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding.

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