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Civil War Navy General Order, 1862

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Civil War Union Documents

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Medical Survey of Union Naval Sick

October 28, 1862, Navy Department General Order, Medical Survey, Mint.
8.5" x 5.5", one page. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, orders that "permission will not be granted by commanding officers... to any officer under their command... , to leave his station, for any causes connected with health, till a Board of Medical Survey shall have pronounced such a measure essential to early recovery, or have reported the officer, or man, unfitted for further duty on his station."

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