WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, August 15, 1864. 
The following General Orders, No. 295, of 1863, is republished, 
and is still in force:— 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 295. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
Washington, August 31, 1868. 
By an act of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, approved 
September 27, 1862, the right to vote for certain State officers is given 
to Volunteers or soldiers from that State in the military service of the 
United States, and provision is made for the appointment of com- 
missioners to the regiments of Minnesota Volunteers for the purpose 
of carrying out this act. It is hereby ordered that all such duly 
accredited commissioners from Minnesota be furnished with proper 
facilities for visiting the Volunteers from that State, and allowed 
access to them for the purpose indicated. 
order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistam Adjutant General.