1861 June 12 Manassas Junction [Virginia]

Head Quarters, Dept, of Alexa

General Orders
No 10.

I. The attention of commanding
officers of Posts and Regiments, is called to
the regulations of the Army concerning ambu-
lances or spring wagons; and it is expressly
enjoined that these vehicles shall not be used
except for their legitimate purposes--to wit--the
transportation of the sick, disabled, and woun-
ded men of the army.

II. For the present, ambulances or Spring wagons
and their teams furnished to Regiments, will be
under the immediate direction of the Regimental
Quarter Master, who will keep them in condition
to meet promptly the requisitions of the proper
medical officers.

III. Until otherwise ordered, all permits granted
to citizens to pass into Camp Pickens, or within
the chain of Regimental, main or picket guards,

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shall be issued from the office of the com-
manding officer of the Post; and no application
for such papers or permits, hereafter, will be made
to these Head Quarters.

IV. All persons in the military Servie, except
of the Staff of the General Commanding, or from
an outpost, and having dispatches for or business
with the Head Quarters, must apply to the
commanding officer of Camp Pickens for
permits to enter and visit withn the chain of
sentinels of the main or several camps, or
police guards thereof.--
(By order of Brig. Genl. Beauregard,
Thomas Jordan
a.A.Adgt. Genl.)

MSS 640