Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-23
General Orders No. @.
HDQRR MILITARY DIVISION MISSISSIPPI,

| HDQR MILITARY DIVISION MISSISSIPPI, I
Nashville, Tenn, April 6, 1854.
To enable the Military Railroads running
from Nashville to supply more fully the ar.
mics in the field, the following regulations
will hereafter be observed
l. No citizen nor any private freight
whatever will be transported by the rail.
roads, save as herein provided
ii, Officers travelling under orders, or
on leave of absence, sick or furloughed sol.
dicrs departing from or returning to thoir
regiments, and small dctachments of troops,
will be transported on the orders of the Post
Commanders, Of Brigader General Andy
Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee
or OF the commanding officer of either Of
the Departments Of the Ohio, the Cumber.
land or the Tennessee, or Of the Military
Division Of the Mississippi Bodies Of
troops will not be transported by railroads
when it is possible for them to march, OK.
cept upon the order of the commanding of.
ticcr Of some one OF the Military Depart
ments above named. Civil employees ofthe
various Staff Departments will be trans.
ported on the order Of the Senior and Su-
Cumberlcnd, at Nashville, Tenn or of the
commanding officer Of either Of the Military
Departments above named. Employees OF
the railroads will be transported on the or.
der of the Superintendent or Chief Engineer
Of the Railroads.
III. No citizens will be allowed to travel
on the railroads at all, except on the permit
of the Commanding Officer of one of tho
three Military Departments, or of the Mill
tary Divisions of the Mississippi, and when
their transportation will not prevent that Of
any army supplies, Of which the proper of.
ticer of the Quartermaster's Department
will be the Judge.
". Express Companies will be allowed
one car per day each way, on each Military
Road, to carry small paroles for soldiers and
officers. One car per day more on each
road for Suffers Goods and Officers Stores,
may be allowed by the Senior and Super.
vising Quartcrmaster at Nashville, at his dis
erection; these cars to be furnished by tho
Express Companies and attached to tho
Passenger Train. When sufficient sur.
plus of stores has been accumulated at tho
front, the Senior and Supervising Quarter
master aforesaid may increase this allow
ahcc, out not before.
v Stores exclusively for officers mcsses
in very limited quantities after due inspec.
tion 10y the Inspecting Officer at Nashville,
Tenn, of Suffers Goods, and all private
stores, shipped to the front, will be passed
free on the several roads ON the order of the
Senior and Supervising Quartcrmaster, Dc.
partment OF the Cumberland, at Nashville,
Tenn.
VI. Horses, cattle or other live stock,
will not be transported by railroad, except
on the written order of the Commanding
General Of the Military Division or of one
pi the Military Departments.
VII. Trains on their return trips will be
allowed to bring up private freight, when
the shipment thereof does not interfere with
the workings of the road, ofwhch the Senior
and Supervising Quartermaster at Nashville
will be the Judge.
VIII. Provost Marshals have nothing to
do with transportation by railroads. Their
passes merely mean that the bearer can 20
from one point to another named in their
pass, but not necessarily by rail The rail.
roads are purely for Army purposes. u ..
IN, When the rolling stock of the rail.
road is increased, or when due accumula.
ton of stores has been made at the front,
increased facilities may be extended to pas.
sengers or private freight, of which due no.
tice will be given. Until that time citizens
and suffers must use wagons.
X Until the Railroads are relieved, an
Military Posts within thirty-five miles Of
Nashville. and twenty miles of Stevenson,
Bridgeport Chattanooga, Huntsville and
Loudon, must haul their stores BY wagons.
NJ. The General Manager of the Rail.
roads and his duly appointed Agents and
Conductors. will control the trains. and will
be authorized to call on every passenger for
his orders for transportation by railroad,
that they may be returned 10 the General
Manager or superintendent. The Military
Guard will enforce good order, and sustain
the Agents and Conductors of the Roads in
their rightil au; ori'y. but will report any
msmunatc ~ neglect of duty through
their officers TO these headquarters.
XII Until other arrangements are per-
fectcd, Commanding Officers, on the request
of the Railroad Managers, will furnish de-
tails for providing wood or water at such
points as may be necessary to supply the
trains. ....., p.
By command of
Mai Gen W. I. SHERMAN.
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