HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2, 
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Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 20,1862. 
!• The custom of sending telegrams upon subjects which can be very 
vveH to by letters, has entailed such an expense upon the Govern- 
MEnt that it' must be discontinued. Hereafter no message except on impor- 
tant government business must be transmitted at public expense. 
11. Any Quartermaster serving within the limits of this department will 
realtor pay the accounts properly made out of any discharged soldier, no 
enadei whether the soldier is discharged or not at the post where be is 
serving. 
®' orders and instructions of the Chiefs of Staff Departments to 
eir subordinates must be communicated through the respective military 
commanders of these officers. Discipline and efficiency can oaly be pre- 
served by a rigid adherence to this rule. 
command of Gen’l Bragg, 
(Signed) GEORGE G. GARNER, 
Official— 
A. Adj’t Geu’l, 
A. A. G