OKN'ERAI. ORDERS, 
No. 226. 
IVA Ft DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAI.’S OFFICE, 
Washington, July 8, 1864. 
Section 2d of, the Act approved June 20th, 1804, published in 
General Orders, No. 216, current series, having modified the Army 
ration, the following regulations on that subject will be observed: 
1. The ration is twelve ounces of pork or bacon, or one pound 
and four ounces of salt or fresh beef; eighteen ounces of soft bread 
or flour, or twelve ounces of hard bread, or one pound and four 
ounces of corn meal ; and, to every one hundred rations, fifteen 
pounds of beans or peas, or ten pounds of rice or hominy ; ten 
pounds of green coffee, or eight pounds of roasted (or roasted and 
ground) coffee, or one pound and eight ounces of tea ; fifteen pounds 
of sugar; four quarts of vinegar ; one pound and four ounces of 
adamantine or star candles ; four pounds of soap ; three pounds 
and twelve ounces of salt, and four ounces of pepper. The Sub- 
sistence Department, as may be most convenient or least expensive 
to it, and according to the condition and amount of its supplies, 
shall determine whether soft bread or flour, and what other compo- 
nent parts of the ration, as equivalents, shall be issued. 
2. On a campaign, on marches, or on board of transports, the 
ration of hard bread is one pound. 
3. Desiccated compressed potatoes, or desiccated compressed 
mixed vegetables, at the rate of one ounce and a half of the former 
and one ounce of the latter to the ration, may be substituted for 
beans, peas, rice or hominy. 
4. Beans, peas, salt and potatoes (fresh) shall be purchased, is- 
sued and sold by weight, and the bushel of each shall be estimated 
at sixty pounds. 5. When deemed necessary, fresh vegetables, dried fruit, molas- 
ses, pickels, or any other proper food, may be purchased and issued 
in lieu of any component part of the ration of equal money value. 
The Commissary-General of Subsistence is alone authorized to 
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order such purchases. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.