To Gen Milroy From HQ Dist of Tenn July 25 1864

              Head Quarters District of Tennessee 

                                         Nashville Tenn July 25, 1864 


 
 
General Orders 

      No 35 


 
                             As the issuing of rations from Government 
supplies to Citizens and other persons not in the employment 
of the Government is prohibited and as almost daily 
applications are made to Commanding Officers of  posts 
and stationary detachments in all parts of this District 
by indigent and destitute persons for subsistence which 
cannot be furnished except from private means which 
are becoming exhausted, and as common humanity requires 
that these people should not be allowed to suffer and die 
in our midst from starvation, and as the want and misery 
from which these persons are suffering has been occasioned 
by the devastations of war, brought on by a wicked and 
causeless rebellion; and as those in sympathy with the rebellion; 
with its aiders and abetters should as far as possible be 
made to bear the burdens and alleviate the want and 
misery it has occasioned.  It is therefore ordered, as 
follows: 


 
1st Officers Commanding posts and separate detach- 
ments are directed to make assessments upon persons 
of rebel sympathies and proclivities residing within the 
limits of their respective commands, not to exceed five per acre 
upon the value of the  property owned by such persons to be paid 
in provisions or cash as may be ordered.