GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 189. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, May 2, 1864. 
1. The attention of all officers is called to General Orders, No. 160, 
series of 1862, providing for the issue of shelter tents, instead of com- 
mon, wall, or Sibley tents. When troops refuse to accept shelter tents, 
they will not be furnished with any. Troops in garrisons, at stations, 
or in detachments, can construct huts, if they prefer them to shelter 
tents. Quartermasters are prohibited from issuing tents, other than 
the kind provided for, no matter by whom the requisitions are approved, 
or by whose order the issues are directed to be made, until otherwise 
ordered through the Adjutant General of the Army. 
2. Commanding Officers of Departments, and of troops, and the 
Quartermaster General, will be held responsible for the enforcement and 
due observance of this order; and any one who shall issue or direct the 
issue of tents other than as prescribed, will be tried by Court Martial, 
or reported for summary dismissal. 
Issue of Shelter Tents. 
By command of Lieutenant General Grant : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.