4 x 6 5/8, imprint.

War Department
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, August 1, 1863

General Orders
No. 254

By direction of the President of the United States, the following officers are retired from active service at their own request, and their names will be entered on the retired list of officers of the grade to which they now respectively belong, in accordance with section 15, act approved August 3, 1861; this order to take effect from this date:

Colonel Hannibal Day, 6th Infantry

Lieutenant Colonel George Nauman, 1st Artillery

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
E.D. TOWNSEND
Assistant Adjutant General

Very fine 1863 Union document.