ATLANTA, .JUNE IStii, 1804. 
 
 /. Tlie aiteiltioD ot Suvgeoiis in charge of Jiospitals is called to the 
 following Special Orders from Army Head-Quarters : 
 
 I. Authority is given Surgeon S. .11. Stout, Medical Director of Hos- 
 pitals, to grant leaves of absence and furloughs for not exceeding thirty 
 (30) days, to officers and men from this Army, in hospitals under his 
 charge. Surgeon Stout, in granting furloughs, will be guided by the 
 instructions received from Surgeon A. J. Foard, Medical Director of the 
 Army. 
 
 II. Officers and men, receiving leaves and furloughs, will report at 
 the expiration thereof, to the Hospitals from which they are granted. 
 In all cases, notices of leaves and furloughs will be sent through these 
 Head-Quarters to commanding officers. 
 
 By Command of (JEN'L JOHNSTON, 
 (Signed) Ktnlocii F.u.(,oxl;i;, A. A. Gen'l. 
 
 II. The General Commanding has issued the above Special Orders 
 with the expectation that Medical Examining Boards, acting under au- 
 thority thereof, will exercise a wise discretion in recommending leaves 
 of absence and furloughs. 
 
 That the order may be caijied out in its spirit and intent, the follow- 
 ing directions are given : 
 
 III. Tiie Boards, in recommending leaves of absence or furloughs, 
 must, in each case, certify that, in their opinion, the patient will be 
 sooner restored to health, by his temporary removal from hospital. 
 
 IV. A record or the name, rank, company, regiment, brigade and 
 (livision of each patient granted leave of absence or furloughed under 
 this order, and his Post Office, while absent on leave or fu*lough, shall 
 be carefully kept in each hospital, a transcript of which shall, on Sat- 
 urday of each week, be forwarded, properly endorsed, and classed by 
 regiments, battalions and batteries, (the commands of each brigade- 
 being registered, as near as maybe, together,) through this office to the 
 A. & I. general of the Army of I'ennessee. 
 
 •• E.YTR.ICT.' 
 
 HEAD-QUARTEKS AKMY OF TENN., 
 " fx THE FiELD,^^ June 17tii, 1804. 
 
 ^SPECUL FIELD ORDERS, ) 
 NO. 'H, S 
 
\ - ^iibitvui oi ..-J : > their eoauBaiids as fomierly, oUJcers on 
 
 leave or ^adie:-? o i;r.'Jer provisions of Ibis order, siialJ be 
 
 ronuired to reiuin : froiii ^vbicil the leave Oi absence or 
 
 JurJough grajiteu . . .... . ,he expiration thereof, when, if fir lor 
 
 duty, Lhev >vi]l be r^tuiiied to-taieir commands, as in other cases. 
 
 yi. Officers and >oidiers returning home on leave or furlough, under 
 this order, or.^n reaching places at which they vfill stay during leave or 
 fitiloijgh, will report to tiie nearest enrolling officer,^ and \vill 
 hiurof their deparaue for hospital at the expiration thereof. 
 ^ VU Notices of leaves -^nd furloughs, granted under this ordei-, and 
 ilr^o of every faihire ro report again to hospital, as provided in this 
 rder, must be transmitted to the .jommanders of comr>nnies, through 
 ■ rmy Head -Quarters, as in other cases 
 V'flL The Enrolling officer of every District to .... , 
 
 soldiers au, granted the privilege of going, under this order, will each 
 vyeek, be furni?! i v Mm. Surgeon^ in .aarge of each hospital, with a 
 list of the name jhcers granted lea^es, and men fivrloughed. 
 
 v»'ith the dot. uenccment and expiration of the le v 
 
 'urloughs. 
 
 iX, 'rhc naxiic..- aii gi.mted leave of absence oi furioughc-d uiificj 
 this order, will be retained on the hospital register, and Reported as 
 bemir absent under orders fj om Ai-my Head-Quarters. Xotices of such 
 .e£. r . or furlougIi«£ will not be -?ent to the AVar Bepartrnent. as thh- 
 order is from Department Head-Quarters. 
 
 X. Th*' leaves of »i •r-ncc and furloughs will be issued from the office 
 oi the Medical Director of Hospitals, signed b> himselt; o: bi^ -li- 
 sence, by Surgeon S M. Bemiss as acting Medical Director 
 
 XI. The orders from the A. «fc J. Generars office, r{ichra ..ivi. auiii^ 
 ruing the granting of furloughs for sixty days, on certain conditions, 
 by Modical Examining Boards, are not intended to bo interfered witi: 
 by the above, ]>ut re.vaain hi full force . s heretofore. Th^)se grante?'! 
 leaves t^r furloughed under existing orders from A. & L G. o/wilJ 
 entered under the head of ' Furloughed/- on Morning Eeporfc ..^ 
 usual, while an additional column should be ruled off from the coluiu^i 
 of ^'Kemarks'' in. Morning P.epovts, and headed "Absent under c. 
 ders," in '^'hick. column the number absent on leave or furlough^ unc!-. 
 S. ^ V ^ " ' Head-Quarte. i Army of Tennessee, shall be constant i . 
 she- 
 
 XIL Paragraph VI, General Orders No, 141, A. .v, J. ' j . ibi 
 beearefn' ' >^ i ved in gianting certificates 
 
 ^^^^ J* is only applicable to officers and soldiers of Generoi 
 
 > H. STOU J,