GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 38. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, April 8, 1862. 
Colonel Anson Stager, Assistant Quartermaster, has been appointed 
Military Superintendent of Telegraph Lines throughout the United 
States. 
Commanding Officers in the military service will, upon the requisition 
of Colonel Stager, or of his Assistants, give such aid as may be neces- 
sary in the construction, repair, and protection of military telegraph 
lines ; and will furnish to the employees connected with those lines, 
transportation, rations in kind, fuel, lights, stationery, and shelter, 
such as are allowed to other Government employees. 
By order op the Secretary op War : 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.