Order
S. Cooper, January 4, 1864
593, 594, 596, 598, 606, 608. GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE,
January 4, 1864.
No. 1. Richmond, January 4, 1864. I. If immediately after the death of an officer there be no family connection or legal representative present to whom the officer charged by the Ninety-fourth Article of War with securing his effects may deliver them, he will turn them over, under the provisions of paragraph III, General Orders, No. 67, 1863, to the quartermaster of the regiment or post, as the circumstances may indicate to be proper. I. I. Surgeons or assistant surgeons in charge of hospitals will, upon the death of a soldier in hospital, furnish the Second Auditor of the Treasury a statement from their rolls showing the last payment preceding his death made to such soldier. By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, 1861. Summary: S. Cooper issues General Orders detailing procedures for handling deceased officers' effects and hospital records of deceased soldiers' last payments during the Civil War in 1864 Richmond.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 3
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