This entry is from the Memphis Daily Appeal, July 26, 1861, and concerns the Rebel soldiers' use and procurement of tobacco.
General Order No. 29.
Headquarters Army of Tennessee, Memphis, July 24, 1861.
The use of tobacco having become so fixed a habit with a very large proportion of our troops that the deprivation of it is to them a very severe inconvenience, and it being impossible for them to procure it at many of the encampments, the Major-General commanding, after consultation with and with the approval of his excellency, the Governor of the State, directs the various Commissary Staffs throughout the State to purchase by wholesale, from time to time, such amounts of good tobacco as may be necessary, and resell it to the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee at the cost price.
By command of Major-General, Gideon J. Pillow, Commanding the Army of Tennessee.
Gus. A. Henry, Jr., Ass't Adjutant-General.
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