Adjt. & Inspr Genls Office
Richmd: Octo: 14th 1861
Special Orders
No. 179
II. Officers in addressing their communications from “Camps & Stations” will name the Post Office, nearest to said Camps & Stations. For want of this necessary information many letter remain unanswered. The particular Post Town & State should in all cases be given.
By command of the Sec. of War
(signed) John Withers, A.A.G
Off: Copy
W. H. Taylor, A.A.G.
Gen Floyd
Comdg &c
Source: The Archives of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Papers of the Lee Family, Box 3, M2009.273, Jessie Ball duPont Memorial Library, Stratford Hall
Transcribed by Colin Woodward, 2015 October 30