GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 129. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, March 30, 1864. 
The attention of all officers is called to the Army Regulations and 
General Orders in regard to correspondence on official matters. All 
such correspondence must be conducted through the proper official 
channels, except in cases of pressing necessity, which do not leave time 
for regular communication, and then the necessity must be stated. All 
applications or correspondence, through whomsoever made, in violation 
of this order, will not be responded to, and the writers will be arrested 
and tried for disobedience of orders, or recommended to the President 
for dismissal. 
By command of Lieutenant General Grant: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.