GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 26. 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, February 24, 1865. 
Advertising and Printing 
I..Officers of the army are informed that paragraph 1 of the 
Regulations of the War Department, relative to newspaper advertising, 
dated January 1, 1865, and embodied in General Orders, No. 17, cunent 
series, applies to all advertisements, orders, and notices published in 
newspapers, and intended to be paid for by the War Department, since 
April 8, 1864, which have not already been reported to the Assistant 
Secretary of War, under the provisions of substantially the same 
paragraph, contained in War Department Circulars dated May 20 and 
June 20, 1864. 
II..Hereafter all officers of the army, within the limits of the Depart- 
ment of Washington, will procure their necessary printing at the 
Government Printing Office in this city, unless otherwise specially 
ordered by the Secretary of War. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.