5 x 8, imprint.

Headquarters, Department of the South,
Hilton Head, S.C., May 22, 1865

General Orders,
No. 67

The following Dispatch from the War Department is published for the information of the command:

War Department,
Washington, 2:20 P.M., May 16th, 1865

To: Maj. Gen. Q.A. Gillmore,
Hilton Head

The Secretary of War directs that the provisions of General Orders 77, current series, be extended to include all patients who, although requiring further medical treatment, are able to travel and desire to be discharged; also, all men yet in Hospitals recently transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, as soon as the interests of the public service will permit. The order for the discharge from Hospitals should be liberally interpreted. The word "patients" in Telegram of May 3d, was intended to include all enlisted men who were in Hospital except the guards and nurses of the Veteran Reserve Corps.

SAM'L BRECK,
Assistant Adjutant General

By Command of Major General Q.A. GILLMORE

W.L.M. Burger,
Assistant Adjutant General

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Light age toning and wear. Uncommon Department of the South imprint.