GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Numbers 102.
Washington, August 11, 1862.

All leaves of absence and furloughs, by whomsoever given, unless by the War Department, are from this date null and void, and all officers and privates capable of service will immediately rejoin their respective command. The commanding officer of each corps, regiment, military post, or other commands will see that the muster directed in General Orders, Numbers 92, current series, be made on the 18th instant, and that all absentees be marked as therein directed. All persons so marked as absent will be considered as absent without proper cause until they shall adduce evidence before a military court or commission to show that such absence was occasioned by one of the three causes specified in General Orders, Numbers 92; and until the action of such court or commission they will receive no pay.

By command of Major-General Halleck:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 11, 1862.

HUGH HARBISON,

Treas. Colt Firearms Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Conn.:

SIR: In reply to yours of 6th instant, asking that the workmen employed on Government work be exempt from draft, I am directed to say that if in the draft any of such men should happen to be drawn this Department will take care that the interests of the Government shall not suffer by their going into the service. You will please notify this Department immediately after the draft of the names of your men draw, and state reasons, if any, why they should be excused.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., August 11, 1862.

JOHN C. PALMER, Esq.,.

President Sharps Rifle Co., Hartford, Conn.:

If any of your skilled workmen are drafted they will be discharged. This will relieve you.

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., August 11, 1862.

MILITARY COMMANDANTS, PROVOST-MARSHALS, U. S. MARSHALS, AND POLICE OFFICERS:

You will herewith an order of the War Department to prevent the evasion of military duty and for the suppression of disloyal practices, dated the 8th of August, 1862.*

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*Embodied as paragraph I, in General Orders, Numbers 104, August 13, p. 370.

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