GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 104. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, June 2, 1865. 
Transportation to be furnished Prisoners released on taking the oath. 
The Quartermaster's Department will furnish all prisoners of war, 
and citizen prisoners, who have been, or may be, released from 
confinement, by reason of their taking the oath of allegiance to the 
United States, with transportation to their homes, or to the nearest 
points thereto which it may be practicable to reach by the usual routes 
of water and railroad transportation. 
All officers of the Quartermaster's Department who may be called 
upon to provide transportation under this order, will require the parties 
applying for the same to produce satisfactory evidence that they were 
released upon the condition specified, and for this purpose such prisoners 
will, at the time of their discharge from custody, be given, by the 
commanding officers, a written statement, setting forth that they are 
entitled to transportation to their homes. 
By command of Lieutenant General Grant: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.