Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) General Orders No. 8
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00229 Author/Creator: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) Place Written: Springfield, Illinois Type: Autograph document signed Date: 19 June 1861 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 31 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Order requiring soldiers to have a pass approved by Grant himself if away from camp at night, but no pass at all is required to leave camp during the day. Hopes that his leniency on the latter issue will lead to obedience on the former. Two days earlier Grant had been made a Colonel and put in charge of the Twenty-first Illinois infantry regiment. Grant soon whipped the notoriously rowdy regiment into much better fighting shape. Written at Camp Yates.
Head Quarters, Camp Yates
June 19th 1861
Orders No 8.
Hereafter no passes to soldiers, to be out of Camp after Sundown will be valid unless approved by the Comdg Officers of the Regiment.
From Reveille until retreat no passes will be required. In extending this privilege to the men of this Command the Col. Comd.g hopes that his leniency will not be so abused as to make it necessary to retract it. All men when out of Camp should reflect that they are gentlemen, in Camp, soldiers, and the Comd.g hopes that all of his Command will sustain these two characters with fidelity.
Absence from Camp will not be received as a paliation for any absence from duty, on the contrary will be regarded as an aggrivation of the offence, and will be punished accordingly.
The Guards are required, in all cases, to arrest all men coming into Camp after retreat, unless provided with a pass Countersigned by the Regtl. Comd.r
U. S. Grant
Col. Comd.g Regt.
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