GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 206. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, July 3, 1863. 
rihe attention ot Commanding Officers of regiments, battalions not 
included in regiments, independent companies or batteries, and de- 
tachments, surgeons in charge of hospitals or detachments, and all 
persons in the military service commanding or controlling commis- 
sioned officers or enlisted men on special or detached service, is 
directed to General Orders, No. 72, from this Office, of March 24, 
1863. 
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The “ Reports of Deserters,” therein called for, must be promptly 
and regularly forwarded as directed. “ Monthly Reports” will embrace 
only such desertions as may have occurred during the month, and will not' 
be a consolidation of previous reports. 
By ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR r 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.