BROADSIDE – GENERAL ORDER NO. 2, SALE OF ‘INTOXICATING LIQUORS’

BROADSIDE – GENERAL ORDER NO. 2, SALE OF ‘INTOXICATING LIQUORS’

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Headquarters Department of Washington, Office Provost Marshal General, Defences North of Potomac, Washington, D.C. May 29, 1865. All barrooms and places where intoxicating liquors are sold within the District of Columbia are ordered to be closed until further notice per the instructions of the Lt. Genleral Commanding the Armies of the United States.  By order of T. Ingraham, Colonel and Provost Marshal General, Defences North of Potomac.

Bold type. Measures 8” x 10”. Written in ink at left below order is name of John M. Dean, Capt. &  Provost Marshal, Georgetown D.C., recipient of order. Issued at a time when perhaps there was too much celebration occurring among the remaining troops.  [ss]

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